Quotes About Sophistication

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

Who needs a French man when there is French cheese? Half as stinky and twice as smart.

For a new fount to be successful it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military, nor the political, nor the commercial, that was predominant in the life of the individual and of the masses.

Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.

He came over to her with the lounging grace of a panther, and leaned against the mantelpiece.

So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

I do so think well of a man who dies with finesse.

I think the notion of worldbuilding is a failure of literary sophistication.

Three flutes of champagne in the early afternoon anchored by the weight of nine oysters.

Plants are so unlike people that it's very difficult for us to appreciate fully their complexity and sophistication. Yet plants have been evolving much, much longer than we have

I always try to emulate those I admire. Pamela Harriman, Coco Chanel, Wallis Simpson, Jean Harlow, Diana Vreeland.

I listen to Sinatra way more than a person my age probably should.

I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

I've said from the start that I'm not going to write kiddie sitcoms.

I'm not being arrogant or blase, but I got a bigger buzz sitting opposite Jean-Bernard Delmas over lunch at Chateau Haut-Brion than I did from interviewing Elton John, Liza Minelli or Whitney Houston.

Being bored by clothes shopping feels smart and intellectual: 'Ooh, get me, insufficiently entertained by racks of skinny jeans; my mind is on higher things.'

I love Audrey Hepburn. I thought she was very classy.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.