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Quotes About Complicated

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.
~ Kiki Smith
Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.
~ Michael Bierut
From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...
~ Deyth Banger
I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.
~ Madonna Ciccone
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
~ Mike Birbiglia
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
~ Iain Glen
Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.
~ Nate Mendel
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
~ Miuccia Prada
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.
~ Helen Hunt
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
~ Julian Barnes
To write a book about Mickey Mantle and not to show people who he really was doesn't make any sense whatsoever. So I decided the only way to do this is call it a novel and plow full-speed ahead as to what my interpretation and my estimation of who he was and what was troubling him. This is a very complicated book. It's hardly just about sex.
~ Peter Golenbock
I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on.
~ Philip K. Dick
William,' she said, 'I wish you'd tell me what the matter is—' 'It's a bit complicated,' he said, 'but she won't be any trouble, honestly.' That wasn't what she meant, and both of them knew it; but somehow Will was in charge of this business, whatever it was.
~ Philip Pullman
And whose quiet static laughter is always appropriate, conscious, complicated by an automatic and sophisticated concern for the special sensitivities of everyone present. Viz. Bonnie laughs only with ; Carlina was so conceived and constituted as to laugh only at .
~ David Foster Wallace
Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you
~ David Henry Hwang
I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.
~ David Levithan
The past and the future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple. And the simplicity is the sensation of it being just her and me.
~ David Levithan
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
~ David Levithan
I didn't mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can't erase it. I can't ignore it. I have lived my whole life like this, and you're the thing that has made me wish it could stop.
~ David Levithan
The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple. And that simplicity is the sensation of it being just her and me.
~ David Levithan
sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them. At
~ David Weber
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
~ Dean Koontz
What of it? Tokyo people are complicated. They live in such noise and confusion that their feelings are broken to little bits." "Everything is broken to little bits.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
He pulled himself together to answer her question. "Life is awfully complicated now," he said, trying to express his thoughts; "you have got to conform to laws that your instinct tells you are false laws—it makes me angry sometimes.
~ D.E. Stevenson