Quotes About Sophistication

Michelle Obama blows my mind. Form and function, style and grace.

Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but what would two middle-aged people do that for? We were sensible enough when we got it.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.

An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart. The

Dr. Lecter took off Krendler's runner's headband as you would remove the rubber band from a tin of caviar.

Even the piquant can forfeit popularity if tied to something intellectual.

Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution.

If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,' Madame added, turning her back on them. 'And therefore, nothing more refined.

Oamenii iau de-a gata ceea ce de fapt este o art?. Arta de a tr?i bine, de a tr?i confortabil dup? standardele personale, cere o anumit? maturitate a spiritului, un caracter excep?ional, un gust cu adev?rat rafinat ?i…

She'd always heard that Paris was elegant but hasd struggled to imagine how. She'd assumed it would be rigid; the demanding intolerance of perfection. But...she was struck by the easy naturalness of everything.

Lords and ladies,

Always the perfect French, with never a contraction or word of slang.

The woman matched the room. Pale pastel Chanel suit. Oscar de la Renta kitten heels. Diamond the size of a Krispy Kreme donut.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

It wasn't as if she was a silly, naive miss who knew nothing of the way of things--heaven knows, she had been to Boston!

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

The fox came to pay the birch tree a vist, bringing with him a book of poetry. He was wearing a dark blue suit fresh from the tailor's, and his light brown leather shoes squeaked slightly as he walked.

Wesley developed a theological style that not only was sophisticated in its attempt to hold a diversity of truths in tension, but also has on occasion puzzled his interpreters, both past and present, precisely because of that diversity.

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever more sophisticated ways. Programming is complex because of the large number of conflicting objectives for each of our programming projects. If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.

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Throughout history, skilled laborers have applied sophistication and skepticism to their encounters with new tools and their decisions about whether to adopt them. There's no reason why knowledge workers cannot do the same when it comes to the Internet—the fact that the skilled labor here now involves digital bits doesn't change this reality.