Sophistication Quotes

• My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Machine
  • Options
  • Overwhelm

• If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to your grave. You can be that worldly woman, that woman who looks beautiful dressed up.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • Up
  • Career
  • Beautiful

• Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Honesty
  • Demands
  • Temper

• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ignore
  • Behinds
  • Storytelling

• Only in the latest of our Gospels, John, a Gospel that shows considerably more theological sophistication than the others, does Jesus indicate that he is divine. I had come to realize that none of our earliest traditions indicates that Jesus said any such thing about himself. And surely if Jesus had really spent his days in Galilee and then Jerusalem calling himself God, all of our sources would be eager to report it. To put it differently, if Jesus claimed he was divine, it seemed very strange indeed that Matthew, Mark, and Luke all failed to say anything about it. Did they just forget to mention that part? I had come to realize that Jesus’ divinity was part of John’s theology, not a part of Jesus’ own teaching.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Jesus
  • Teaching
  • Gospels

• There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Believe
  • Proud
  • Glamour

• Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Kids
  • Plant
  • Chemistry

• There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Filmmaking

• It adds a layer of needed sophistication to the league.

  

  Keith Pelley
  • League
  • Sophistication
  • Layer

• Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Natural
  • Drinking
  • Eating

• I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Candidates
  • Jihad
  • Anthropologists

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

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Reputation
  • Sophistication
  • Hedonist

• Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.

  

  Boaz Ganor
  • Decision
  • Terrorism
  • Policies

• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions... It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Simplicity
  • Sophistication

• The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.

  

  Edward Feigenbaum
  • Knowledge
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.

  

  Eric Partridge
  • Hands
  • Regard
  • Pianist

• Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Police
  • Express
  • Web