Quotes About Intricacy

I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.

Or, as Tesla put it, "A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe; so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature." It

God wrote the script of your life before the doctor had the chance to slap your glutes (see Ps. 139:15-16).

We don't need to have a birthmark prophetically positioned in a sign on our third rib to tell us what the Bible has already told us: We are intricately, beautifully, and wonderfully made.

Lately whenever I'd scratched somebody's surface I'd turned up a ghost story.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate; Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors.

The essence of beauty is in variety and surprise, in richness, ambiguity, and intricacy of detail.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

The picture was dizzying, stupefying - a Picasso collage pasted together from a collection of shattered ideas.

'Complicated' is good, in my opinion.

Regardless, one cannot help but marvel that the movement of security prices, the motion of molecules, and the diffusion of heat could all be of the same mathematical species. As will be seen, it is one of many such strange liaisons in nature.

I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people.

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go to a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

The devil is in the detail is an idiom that refers to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details. It derives from God is in the detail attributed to German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). Earlier on Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) said Le bon Dieu est dans le detail. Meaning that things seem simple at first but are more complex or require more time and effort than expected. The earlier idea is that details are important; whatever one does should be done thoroughly.

Les cÅ"urs des femmes sont comme ces petits meubles à secret, pleins de tiroirs emboîtés les uns dans les autres ; on se donne du mal, on se casse les ongles, et on trouve au fond quelque fleur desséchée, des brins de poussière – ou le vide !

We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Ps. 139:13–14, 16 NCV).

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.