Complicated Quotations

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

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

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.

Sometimes, the word ‘voluntary’ is a little complicated…

Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated...

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

Don't complicate whatever is not complicated.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Love makes everything complicated.

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.

I am a very complicated person.

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.