Complicated Quotations | Page 3

Christianity isn't all that complicated ... it's Jesus.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones,

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.

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

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that. Its complicated,

Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship.

I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since...

Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

As soon as you are complicated, you are ineffectual.

THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Women are complicated. Not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.

Love isn’t complicated, people are,

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

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

It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going to have a democratic form of government, people had to be able to read and understand complicated ideas on their own.

Outside the firm, price movements direct production, which is co-ordinated through a series of exchange transactions on the market. Within a firm, these market transactions are eliminated and in place of the complicated market structure with exchange transactions is substituted the entrepreneur-co-ordinator, who directs production.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.

When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.

I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.

I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

Life is extremely complicated.

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

There are complicated processes going on in society in the Crimea. There are problems of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian population, the Russian population, the Slavic population in general, but this is Ukraine's domestic political problem.

There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.

Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own.

Money ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.

Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

Marriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can't fix it with one screw.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.

The complicated futility of ignorance.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

Life is not that complicated.