Quotes About Intricacy

Simple things don't interest me.

I like difficulty. It's what makes my job fun.

There were some things I could never begin to know about.

Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow.

Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.

Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.

'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.

There was a reek in her nose, a slick dark green smell of water that was old enough to be clever and dangerous.

Why don't we give her a crumb or two of that?" "For the same reason that I do not try to pull a thread free from a cobweb and use it to darn my socks," growled Grandible. "Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .

Christianity is not a spectator sport, it's something in which we become totally involved.

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it.

It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a root. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

In 'The Transparent Society,' I am actually no radical. I accept that some secrecy is necessary and avow that human beings have an intrinsic need for some privacy.

It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased for strings of beads, but you find it impossible not to believe that it has always been a city; that if you dug beneath it you would find the ruins of another, older city, and then another and another.

iubirea e atat de mica incat poate sa se strecoare prin ochiul unui ac.

I]t is remarkable how much sheer bullshit seems to accrete around the subject of barbecue. No other kind of cooking comes even close. Exactly why, I'm not sure, but it may be that cooking over fire is so straightforward that the people who do it feel a need to baste the process in thick layers of intricacy and myth. It could also be that barbecue is performed disproportionately by self-dramatizing men.

I love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated.

You have at least 200,000 different types of protein laboring away inside you, and so far we understand what no more than about 2 percent of them do.