Quotes About Sophistication

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.

You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

In each of my homes, I have a leopard room. I don't know why, but I do. It's like my lounge next to the dressing rooms.

I love the Bowery Hotel by night.

When we eat something at a restaurant, however simple it may look, there's something in it that makes you think, 'Well, I couldn't quite do this from home.'

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Before we start, you have to understand one very key thing about Amy: She is fucking brilliant. Her brain is so busy, it never works on just one level. She's like this endless archaeological dig: You think you've reached the final layer, and then you bring down your pick one more time, and you break through to a whole new mine shaft beneath. With a maze of tunnels and bottomless pits.

Phuong had kept us a table at the edge of the dance-floor and the orchestra was playing some tune which had been popular in Paris five years ago. Two Vietnamese couples were dancing, small, neat, aloof, with an air of civilization we couldn't match. (I recognized one, an accountant from the Banque de

We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever more complex and sophisticated, so this is naturally what we expect to find on archaeological sites. It upsets our carefully structured ideas of how civilizations should behave, how they should mature and develop, when we are confronted by a case like Göbekli Tepe that starts out perfect at the beginning and then slowly devolves until it is just a pale shadow of its former self.

She was professionally attired in a tailored blue dress suit and skirt. A

Sour grapes, the champagne of the intelligentsia.

Were they—were all of them, Alice too?—so sophisticated, so counterfeit in their emotions, that they operated one or two steps removed from the substance of things?

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

I love the opportunity to get properly dressed up. I've worn three Lanvin dresses, and they've all been a dream. They're so well made, with the most beautiful craftsmanship. I don't tend to go with things that are ornate - just beautifully made pieces and some classic jewelry. Let the work speak for itself. I love that.

For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.