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Quotes About Sophisticated

I had travelled the world and I had come to realise, in faint surprise, that I had seen no countryside that could compare in pastoral beauty with that of my own home. It takes a long time for an Australian to accept the fact that the wide, bustling, sophisticated world of the northern hemisphere cannot compare with his own land in certain ways;
~ Nevil Shute
rumours can go viral without sophisticated information technology.
~ Niall Ferguson
It is a tragic and potentially lethal irony that those who most despise science and the method of free inquiry should have been able to pilfer from it and annex its sophisticated products to their sick dreams.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The 717th was here to nab an ancient Forerunner ancilla, one that could turn out to be the most sophisticated and powerful AI ever captured by the UNSC.
~ Troy Denning
Ah," said Magnus. "Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.
~ Cassandra Clare
He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too
~ Cassandra Clare
Soon I graduated to more sophisticated forms of levity, like seeing how many crayons I could stick up my nose at one time, burping the alphabet, and playing "Onward Christian Soldiers" on my armpit (I went to parochial school).
~ Dav Pilkey
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
~ Patrick Lencioni
I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.
~ David Small
If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.
~ Ridley Scott
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
~ Ma Ying-jeou
Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.
~ David Lauren
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.
~ Miuccia Prada
Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.
~ Terry Teachout
True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.
~ Francois Nars
I buy a lot of fashion, and I wear many different brands. Even though I'm not so conceptual in my style, I probably buy the most from Junya Watanabe. It's always so spot on and of-the-moment although it's also so sophisticated and conceptual. I also love Marco de Vincenzo, Azzedine Alaia, and Yohji Yamamoto.
~ Margherita Missoni
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.
~ Martha MacCallum
New Yorkers are jaded.
~ Topaz Page-Green
New Yorkers are smart.
~ Jeanine Pirro
I'm not the girl next door.
~ Carine Roitfeld
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
~ Donatella Versace
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.
~ Nicole Krauss
Something for the high-class restaurants to feature, charge ten bucks a plate for.
~ Clifford D. Simak