Complicated Quotations

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I am a very complicated person.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Love makes everything complicated.

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.

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

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

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

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

Don't complicate whatever is not complicated.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

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

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

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

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

All of those guys who told me that I was too short and how complicated the game was, it is not that complicated. It is the same game I have always played.

Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

Of course, it's always complicated to shoot a sex scene.

It really is not that complicated, I just don’t understand HOW people don’t grasp the concept of ‘Free Market’, and why left alone, it WORKS!