Top 984 Sophisticated Quotes & Sayings

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in fact sophisticated have come to distrust stories that are uplifting or simply stories in which the characters get what they want in the end. Because in life, what you want is never the end.

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

I think none of the humor in the first Evil Dead was intentional. We weren't that sophisticated. We got more sophisticated with Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness where you can start to manipulate the audience a little more, having more control over the medium instead of just trying to figure out how to do it. I suppose that's pretty normal with any craft. Every carpenter is better 20 years later.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

With hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies that are essentially doing this, or groups of people or foreign agents inside and outside the United States.

You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

Richer brows give you a sophisticated, feminine look.

I'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time

There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it's circular and we go and we go and we go. I know that there are civilizations that I think are way more sophisticated than we are and I think more sophisticated civilizations lived before us.

The money I have made and will be making means nothing to me compared to the fact that about half of the black people I meet - ranging from the most sophisticated to the least sophisticated - say to me, 'I'm proud of you.' I feel strongly about always earning that and never letting black people down.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site, the specific target that they want to hit. But it depends, this level of sophistication, on the budget and the quality of the actor who's instigating the attack. If it's a country that's less poor or less sophisticated, it'll be a less sophisticated attack.

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

I love sophisticated algorithms that help consumers in a tangible way.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.

I've been surprised by Austin. I had a cowboy image of the place. It's a pretty sophisticated city - in some ways, more sophisticated than Boston. And there's a lighter feel to the place. It's very good for my spirits.

I think audiences are quite sophisticated.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

I try to keep my appearance classic and sophisticated.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode down to the pattern-recognition space; and from pattern recognition into the rules-based mode. This is the mechanism by which less-trained people are enabled to do more sophisticated things. This is always the way disruption happens. It enables a larger population of less-experienced people to do more sophisticated things.

I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.