Words matter. These are the best Complicated Quotes from famous people such as Mary Gauthier, Kate Bush, Paolo Bacigalupi, Nina Bawden, Ron White, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What I’m finding is there’s an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven’t been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in – that they have to work too hard at it.
Originally, ‘The Windup Girl’ started as a short story – a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn’t work very well.
Life isn’t so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That’s why I occasionally moralise in my children’s books in a way I wouldn’t dare when writing for adults.
I guarantee there’s people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.
What’s endlessly complicated in thinking about women’s gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
My life’s far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.
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.
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.
Love is agony, isn’t it? I’ve been involved with someone for some time now, but it’s all so complicated. It’s never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it’s the most wonderful thing ever but… There’s always something that’s not quite right about love, isn’t there?
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.
The question of what it is to live an ‘authentic life’, that’s a complicated one.
The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
I think I would love a shot at remaking ‘The Philadelphia Story,’ as daunting as it is. I still think it’s fantastic. I love the ’30s comedies because they’re allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.
That’s the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, ‘We need more prioritization.’ I say, ‘Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.’
I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.
Prayer is so complicated.
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother’s husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.
We don’t do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water’s at a premium up here. Plus, it’d be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it. So we generally throw our clothes out. I think I’ve been wearing this pair of pants for about two months.
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.
I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I’ve never played the Bionic Woman. In ‘Sarah Connor’ and ‘Lost,’ I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I’ve played quite peripheral people.
Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the complicated ‘Queen Ravenna’, and Stewart’s performance as ‘Snow White’, the fairest of them all, in her first action-heroine role, kept her literally in constant motion.
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
I made the decision I will back Mr. Trump, it’s not very complicated. I don’t pussyfoot around playing the odds.
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.
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
Poaching is a very complicated, multi-layered problem.
I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it works is just far more complicated than humans will ever properly understand.
I wanted to create a toolkit which I would have wanted as an entrepreneur to use these principles of psychology in product design. Some startups totally forget the trigger. In some, the action is too complicated. Others don’t have a variable reward, which maintains mystery.
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
When you’re little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.
In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.
Women are so complicated, it’s unbelievable.
Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don’t know what to start with. You can start with something that you love, but if you start with something that you hate, then it’s like, ‘You know what, I hate jazz.’ It took me a lot of time to catch on to jazz, too.
It’s not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated.
South Sydney is a very complicated and wonderful place. You have some of the most expensive bits of real estate in the country and a large percentage of government housing.
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
The albums ‘Heaven On Earth’ and ‘Runaway Horses’ and ‘Live Your Life Be Free’ were harking back to when I was a young girl and listening to Californian radio – lush productions, complicated melodies, harmonies like the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas. That’s what those albums remind me of.
I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.
The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!
An athlete’s diet is a complicated thing.
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
I didn’t know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I’d never killed a character before.
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
Identity in America is complicated but it’s also simple: it’s about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
It’s very complicated to literally put your family on TV.
A big budget studio film is slower, they’ve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
There’s a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I’ve ever loved is very complicated.
Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it’s all metal, but on the inside it’s very delicate.
America’s health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.
What is it that keeps you so interested in the telomere? It’s so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I’m attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
We’re going to have robots in the home, but they’re not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they’re supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.