Best 427 quotes in «complicated quotes» category

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

The idea of family is really one of the only things we can all say we have and we can't run away from. Whether you like your family or not. Whether it's complicated or not, there's something - call it spiritual, call it existential, whatever - that's in you.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

The more technology becomes complicated inside, the more it has to be simple outside.

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates - which maybe they were - but it turned out to be more complicated than that.

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

There are complicated processes going on in society in the Crimea. There are problems of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian population, the Russian population, the Slavic population in general, but this is Ukraine's domestic political problem.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

There was this very deliberate move to just overlay an American reality in Iraq. I've never actually seen the map, but apparently Americans thought the names of places were just too complicated so they got decent maps of Baghdad and just renamed everything with familiar names. This neighborhood would be Hollywood, that neighborhood would be Manhattan, and that one's Madison, you're going to drive down Oak and take a left on Main Street.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

The trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.

Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.