Top 232 Sophisticated Quotes

Like any country with sophisticated intelligence services, Russia has long been a careful student of U.S. freedoms, laws and the constraints of its main nemesis in the U.S., the FBI.
Asha Rangappa
Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
Don Kardong
In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It’s back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.
Uday Kotak
While sophisticated plays can work in poker, if attempted by an inexperienced player, they’ll usually backfire. Elaborate bluffs and check-raises are best left to experienced players. It’s just like golf: don’t try to hit a tricky flop shot with that 25-handicap of yours!
Daniel Negreanu
The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.
Simon Mainwaring
The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.
Leila Aboulela
I come from a place that is very politically sophisticated and progressive. New Zealand was the first place to give women the right to vote.
Niki Caro
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child’s pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
Simon Van Booy
Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But it’s the encouraging of half the people of America and many more besides to hate words, hate what words can do, hate thought, hate the liberal, the sophisticated, the metropolitan. It’s anger-making.
Howard Jacobson
With my films, I’m targeting the urban multiplexes, the sophisticated media-savvy young crowd.
Ram Gopal Varma
More and more, you’re seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of ‘The Sopranos,’ which is some of the most sophisticated writing I’ve ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I’ve ever seen – and it’s a TV show.
Adam Scott
We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I’ve committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.
Margaret Spellings
I think I’m statistically literate and numbers-oriented. But I’m nowhere near as sophisticated as a lot of other folks I see. Maybe that helps me not get too jargony and communicate this stuff in a way that’s somewhat accessible.
Steve Kornacki
A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
Bob Keeshan
Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it’s pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.
Steven Rattner
Because our government has been so incompetent at protecting its highly sophisticated cyberweapons, those weapons have been stolen out of the electronic vaults of the National Security Agency and the C.I.A. and shot right back at us.
David E. Sanger
The best investment would be a Monika Chiang handbag. Her stuff is so on point. Her pieces are really classic, sophisticated, expensive-looking and they’re just chic.
Jeannie Mai
I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It’s much more funny. It’s much more sophisticated. It’s much more arrogant, like a man with feminine attitude. I love pants.
Sonia Rykiel
I didn’t want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.
Neil Sedaka
People don’t really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn’t say it’s not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.
Francisco Costa
With Whitney Eve, I really wanted to dress everyday girls. I wanted it to be a more sophisticated than just casualwear, but be comfortable at the same time. All the fabrics are easy fabrics, they can be dressed up or dressed down.
Whitney Port
When ‘Penthouse’ and ‘Hustler’ came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a sophisticated men’s magazine.
Hugh Hefner
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophist

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
Dan Castellaneta
I got the ‘Stranger Things’ script, like, a week before NBC canceled ‘State of Affairs.’ I really had this moment where I’m like, ‘I’m done.’ My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, ‘I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.’
David Harbour
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
Robert Fripp
I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She’s really, really classy and always really sophisticated.
Aly Raisman
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn’t go through.
Miuccia Prada
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
Ma Ying-jeou
Dataism is a new ethical system that says, yes, humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data processing system in the universe, but this is no longer the case.
Yuval Noah Harari
In the same way that some magazines have made financial markets accessible to people who don’t want that much sophisticated information, we would like to make information about public issues accessible in a way that makes people feel included.
John F. Kennedy Jr.
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
Stephen Ambrose
We always want what we don’t have, and I’d like a long, sophisticated nose rather than a short, turned-up one.
Darcey Bussell
The most sophisticated people I know – inside they are all children.
Jim Henson
Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn’t mean anything if we don’t make this point in this shot, this one here and this one here. There’s the saying, ‘One shot, one thought.’ It’s pretty much a true way to go.
Henry Selick
It’s rare that you see Latin families being portrayed as intelligent, sophisticated, and powerful entities.
Camila Mendes
I’m not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
Aaron Sorkin
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you’re going before you even start. That’s a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It’s much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more – I want to say ‘sophisticated.’
Betty White
You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can’t help responding to its honesty. It’s music that finds its way deep into your soul because it’s strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
Alison Krauss
Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they’re looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And ‘Scandal’ certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.
Tom Verica
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history’s most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
Michael Johns
The ‘Star Wars’ films are known for their exotic aliens, sophisticated robots, sleek technology, and planet-sized battle stations.
Dave Itzkoff
Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.
Richard Lamm
Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.
John Lithgow
Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through ‘voiceprints,’ akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
Alex Berenson
I buy a lot of fashion, and I wear many different brands. Even though I’m not so conceptual in my style, I probably buy the most from Junya Watanabe. It’s always so spot on and of-the-moment although it’s also so sophisticated and conceptual. I also love Marco de Vincenzo, Azzedine Alaia, and Yohji Yamamoto.
Margherita Missoni
The Cold War’s end pushed disarmament down most leaders’ agendas. It’s a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It’s not visceral. It’s not like a starving child.
Michael Douglas
You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.
Sophie Marceau
At the time we did ‘Night,’ I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our whole movie. They were very slick, sophisticated… we wanted the opposite look for ‘Night.’ We wanted it to look like a newsreel.
George A. Romero
Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis’ approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.
Anand Gopal
I love the Bronze Age – the age of the Trojan Wars and Helen of Troy. Contrary to what people think, Troy was a very sophisticated society and they used ostrich eggs – which have surprisingly tough shells – to store perfumed oils.
Bettany Hughes