Quotes About Sophistication

People have made a living deconstructing Lennon and The Beatles songs because of their compositional sophistication. But what's so exciting about John is that he never had any of that training on musical theory; something just spoke to him, and he just knew what sounded right.

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

I've often been accused of dressing too well. I've always been fascinated by fashion, though I don't think I'm particularly fashionable.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Sprezzatura is a style of elegant nonchalance.

Just as serious modern literature does not have plain old bad guys, sophisticated movies may also avoid such stock figures.

This triple-decker reflects our evolutionary development from the earliest model (single-celled bacteria) to the latest (George Clooney). Each

Good taste is always an asset.

I can be terribly vulgar in private life, especially after a nip of dry sherry.

That diamond encrusted goat's skull is the height of good taste!

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all kinds. This is why they have bidets.

Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold.

We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.

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

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me.

Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!