Sophisticated Quotations

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.

What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

You've seen certain credit type products that are going to be in nonbanks, like sophisticated CLO [collateralized loan obligation] tranches and stuff where the capital charge is so high that a bank simply will not own it. Someone will buy it, hedge it, trade it. But it won't typically be a bank.

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force.

You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

She [Hillary Clinton] used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

A person's beauty is sophisticated and sacred and is far beyond image, appearance or personality.

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.

I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more.

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.

To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

When you look at what's happening in Mexico, a friend of mine who builds plants said it's the eighth wonder of the world. They're building some of the biggest plants anywhere in the world, some of the most sophisticated, some of the best plants. With the United States, as he said, not so much.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.