Best 427 quotes in «complicated quotes» category

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own.

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

Surely comics require more effort on the part of the reader than movies or television. I'm always learning new things you can do with comics that wouldn't work in any other medium, and often they require the need to process a lot of dense information. Of course, the trick is to make the complicated seem effortless and spontaneous.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

That's a very complicated issue [with Donal Trump supporters]. There's things going on with people that we're not privy to, we don't understand. These aren't just a bunch of bad people. That isn't how it works.

THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

Technology doesn't have to be difficult to use or complicated. I feel technology is something that's there to make your life easier not more difficult.

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

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

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

The complicated futility of ignorance.

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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