Complicated Quotes

• Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Life
  • Language
  • Complicated

• People are complicated. There is so much more to everybody than you realise.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • People
  • Complicated
  • Realise

• See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Achieve
  • Complicated
  • Little Things

• I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Kind
  • Complicated
  • Capable

• It was the first thing I learned when I started. An old boss said to me, 'Your job is to reflect interest, not to create it.' And what I've taken from that is, if you're not talking about things people are interested in, then they're going to find someone who is. It's not any more complicated than that. But if you forget it, you won't have a show for very long.

  

  Mike Greenberg
  • People
  • Forget
  • Interest

• He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent... just his face, just his presence. And he was funny, charming, and complicated, but he didn't wear it on his sleeve. You didn't see that he was complicated. You saw great needs.

  

  Tuesday Weld
  • Beautiful
  • Needs
  • Talent

• It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

  

  Francis Crick
  • Understand
  • Around
  • Essential

• I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Lines
  • Reader
  • Sentences

• At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Life
  • Complicated
  • Consistent

• I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Happy
  • Journeys
  • Foreign Language

• I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Mother
  • Play
  • Role

• I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

  

  Sarah Koenig
  • Stories
  • Complicated
  • Center

• Where do we invest our trust now? In politicians? Most people would say not. In banks, in religion, in a sense of nationhood? In each other? Even that has been complicated. It feels like there's a total collapse of trust, but without trust, it's impossible to have any sense of who one is.

  

  Mike Bartlett
  • People
  • Religion
  • Been

• It was too hard, too messy, too complicated. I sort of lived in a self-imposed exile for a good many years. I went away to college, lived my own life, chased my dreams, tried to face some demons. I guess I thought I could do all those things on my won. I thought that because I was gay, my family, well, they'd hate me or they wouldn't understand me or they'd send me away. So I just sent myself away. It was easier for me to pretend that I didn't belong to a family. I tried to pretend I didn't belong to anyone

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • College
  • Gay
  • Dreams

• I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

  

  Susumu Tonegawa
  • Brain
  • Research
  • Complicated

• Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

  

  Catherine Opie
  • Reason
  • Language
  • Photograph

• And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to use those terms. So it gets complicated for sure.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Realize
  • Terms
  • Clergy

• Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

  

  Caryl Rivers
  • Freedom
  • Complicated
  • Servitude

• Marriage can be complicated.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Complicated

• The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Simple

• I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Kind
  • Unity
  • Complicated

• I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Human Beings
  • Complicated
  • Watched

• My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Succeed
  • Complicated

1

...

8

9

10

11

12

previous

next