Complicated Quotes:

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

- A. B. Yehoshua

topic: Writing, Complicated, Process, Writing Process

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

- A. Lee Martinez

source: A. Lee Martinez (2007). “A Nameless Witch”, p.239, Macmillan

topic: Life Is, Complicated, Life Is Complicated

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

- Adrien Brody

topic: Thinking, People, Complicated

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Politics, Physics, Complicated

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

- Alex Katz

source: Alex Katz, Vittoria Coen, Lisa Liebmann (1999). “Alex Katz. Catalogo della mostra”, Hopeful Monsters

topic: Simple, Complicated, Figures

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

- Alexandra Potter

topic: Simple, Complicated

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

- Alice Paul

topic: Ordinary, Complicated

It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.

- Allan Sandage

topic: World, Mystery, Complicated, Concluding, Anthropic Principle

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

- Amanda Palmer

topic: Kids, Dark, Complicated

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

- Anat R. Admati

topic: Banking, Complicated, Banking System

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

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Men, Pieces, Complicated

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

- Andrew Tobias

source: "The invisible bankers". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

topic: Ideas, Two, Complicated

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

- Andy Grove

topic: Problem, Complicated, No Problem

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.

- Ann Druyan

topic: Ideas, Information, Complicated, Personal Experiences

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Simple, Complicated, Inspirational Golf, Life Is A Game

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.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Space, World, Complicated, Corporate World

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

- Avril Lavigne

topic: Complicated

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

- Barack Obama

topic: Inspirational, Violence, Complicated

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

- Barbara Bush

topic: Country, Mean, Complicated, Rugged

I am a very complicated person.

- Bebe Neuwirth

topic: Complicated, Persons

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

- Ben Goldacre

topic: Thinking, Complicated

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

- Bill Reid

topic: Design, Complicated

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

- Bob Cousy

topic: Basketball, Complicated, Wanted

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

- Bob Woodward

topic: Character, Scandal, 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.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Complicated, Immensity, Prose, Lyric Poetry

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

- Bradley Cooper

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Life, People, Complicated

I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore.

- Brenna Yovanoff

source: Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

topic: Matter, Sometimes, Complicated, Decide Upon

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.

- Brian Cox

topic: Beautiful, Confused, Complicated

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

- Brit Marling

topic: Complicated, Messy, Flawed

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

- Bruno Mars

topic: Complicated

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

- Bruno Munari

topic: Simple, Able, Complicated

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

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Reality, Complicated, Odd

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

- Cameron Dokey

topic: Firsts, Path, Complicated

Women are complicated. We all know that.

- Candice Swanepoel

topic: Complicated

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

- Carolyn Hax

source: "Me vs. Football". www.arcamax.com. January 28, 2013.

topic: Happiness, Complicated

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.

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Civilization, Firsts, Complicated

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

- Caryl Rivers

source: Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

topic: Freedom, Complicated, Servitude

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Long, Complicated, Scene

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

- Charles Cumming

topic: Complicated, Term, Concessions

It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Too Much, Study, Complicated

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Running, Problem, Complicated

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; ...

- Charles Mingus

topic: Simple, Complicated

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

- Charles Mingus

topic: Creativity, Simple, Complicated

We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think....

- Charles Yu

topic: Lying, Thinking, Complicated

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

- Charlie Kaufman

topic: Thinking, Complicated

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

- Charlie Sheen

topic: Assassins, Complicated, Warlocks

Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.

- Chelsea Cain

source: Chelsea Cain (2015). “The Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell Series”, p.182, Macmillan

topic: Facts, Complicated, Retarded

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

- Cheryl Strayed

topic: Simple, Complicated, Made, Complicated Life

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

- Danica McKellar

topic: Speech, Disability, Complicated

Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.

- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

topic: People, Complicated, Enough

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

- David A. Bader

topic: Meditation, Complicated, Be Here Now

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

- David Boies

topic: Simple, Shade, Complicated, Simple Truths

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

- David E. Hoffman

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Different, Interviews, Complicated

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

- David Lynch

topic: Life Is, Film, Complicated

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people.

- David Zayas

topic: People, Secret, Complicated

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.

- Deborah Tannen

topic: Daughter, Mother, Complicated

The more technology becomes complicated inside, the more it has to be simple outside.

- Derrick de Kerckhove

topic: Technology, Simple, Complicated

Life is as simple or complicated as we make it.

- Donna Smallin

topic: Simple, Life Is, Complicated

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.

- Dorothy Allison

topic: Shy, Scared, Complicated

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?

- Dorothy Hodgkin

source: Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

topic: Molecules, Complicated, Experiments

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.

- Doug Flutie

topic: Games, Guy, Complicated

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.

- Edie Falco

topic: Cutting, Issues, Complicated

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

- Edie Falco

topic: Littles, Complicated, Good And Bad

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

- Edward G. Begle

topic: Complicated, Mathematics, Expected

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.

- Edwidge Danticat

topic: Home, Trying, Complicated, Back Home

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

- Eleanor Clift

topic: Voting, Opinion, Complicated

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.

- Elena Anaya

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Complicated, Dangerous, Complicated Things

Love makes everything complicated.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Complicated

We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.

- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

topic: Complicated

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

- Elizabeth Kostova

topic: Complicated, Abandoned

There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

- Elvis Costello

topic: Distance, Complicated, Spending

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

- Erich Maria Remarque

source: Erich Maria Remarque (2014). “The Night in Lisbon: A Novel”, p.69, Random House

topic: Strange, Complicated, Feels

Why do relationships have to be so complicated?

- Erin Hunter

topic: Complicated

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

- Erin Merryn

source: Erin Merryn (2009). “Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness”, p.22, Health Communications, Inc.

topic: Abuse, Done, Complicated

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

- Eugene Jarecki

topic: Thinking, Complicated

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

- Eugene Jarvis

topic: Way, Complicated

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

- Faith Hill

topic: Choices, Complicated, Embrace, Embrace Life

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

- Frank Stella

topic: Art, Fall, Complicated

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

- Frederick Lewis Allen

topic: People, Looks, Complicated

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

- Freeman Thomas

topic: Technology, Complicated

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

- Gardner Dickinson

topic: Believe, Golf, Complicated, Humorous Golf, Inspirational Golf

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Interesting, Abnormal, Complicated

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.

- Giorgio Moroder

topic: Intelligent, Becoming, Complicated

I like complicated characters.

- Greg Kinnear

topic: Character, Complicated

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

- Guillaume Musso

topic: Scary, Balance, Complicated, Life Is Complicated

Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

topic: Fun, Real, Complicated

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

- Ha-Joon Chang

topic: Common Sense, Complicated, Economics

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

- Hans Zimmer

topic: Heart, Trying, Complicated

Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Spiritual, Simple, Complicated, Life Is Simple, Complicated Life

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

- Harold H. Greene

topic: Irs, Complicated, Guidelines

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

- Haruki Murakami

source: "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". Book by Haruki Murakami, April 12, 2013.

topic: Language, Complicated, Colorless

It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you.

- Heidi Baker

topic: Compassion, Complicated, Christian Love

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

- Helen Hunt

topic: Challenges, Complicated, Subjects

Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.

- Helen Yglesias

topic: Sisterhood, Complicated, Burden

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.

- Henry Clay

source: "Seventh president a mass of contradictions" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2008.

topic: Believe, New Orleans, Complicated

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

- Henry Ford

topic: World, Way, Complicated, Attics

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

- Hideki Yukawa

topic: Reality, Complicated, Justification, Hasty

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,

- Hod Lipson

source: "Download your own robot scientist" by Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. December 3, 2009.

topic: Simple, Thinking, Complicated

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

- Hugh Prather

topic: Simple, Complicated, Made

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

- Iain Glen

topic: Film, Complicated, Bigs

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all

- Immortal Technique

topic: Needs, Sometimes, Complicated

Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.

- Iris Johansen

topic: Sex, Simple, Complicated

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Life, Our Actions, Complicated, Dumbledore Book, Dumbledore Inspirational

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

- J. Michael Bishop

source: J. Michael BISHOP (2004). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.12, Harvard University Press

topic: Research, Complicated, Modern

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

- Jack Ma

topic: Leadership, Business, Complicated, Peace Talks, Alibaba

I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge.

- Jake Pitts

topic: Challenges, Complicated, Brutal

About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.

- James Frey

source: James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.507, Anchor

topic: Fighting, Complicated, Embrace

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

- James L. Brooks

topic: Simple, Thinking, Complicated

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

- James W. Pennebaker

topic: Rockets, Complicated, Rocket Science

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

- Jane Siberry

topic: Together, Complicated, Pops, Pop Music

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

- Jared Diamond

source: Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.322, Penguin

topic: Simplicity, Consistency, Complicated

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.

- Jason Blum

topic: Falling In Love, Creative, Complicated

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

- Jerome Wiesner

topic: Answers, Problem, Complicated

I'm not a complicated person.

- Jessie Ware

source: "Jessie Ware: 'I want to be a private pop star, like Sade or Annie Lennox'". Interview with Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

topic: Complicated, Persons

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.

- Joan Sutherland

topic: Touching, World, Complicated

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

- John Barth

topic: Simple, Talent, Complicated, Complicated Things

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.

- John Corey Whaley

source: John Corey Whaley (2014). “Noggin”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

topic: Powerful, Way, Complicated

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

- John Diamond

source: John Diamond (2001). “Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations”, Random House

topic: Simple, Answers, Complicated

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.

- John Dos Passos

topic: Apathy, Complicated, Intense, Living Organisms

nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

- John Henry Holland

source: John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

topic: Would Be, Complicated, Behavior, Nonlinear

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

- John Jeremiah Sullivan

topic: Thinking, Complicated, Reminders

In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

- John Podhoretz

topic: Team, Use, Complicated, Primaries

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

- John Thune

topic: Complicated, Social, Program

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

- John von Neumann

source: John Von Neumann, F. Br¢dy, Tibor V mos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.626, World Scientific

topic: Religion, Complicated, Truth Is, Approximation

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

- Jojo Moyes

topic: Mean, Complicated, Printing, Printing Money

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

- Jon McGregor

source: Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Cities, World, Complicated, Pauses

Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.

- Jonas Jonasson

topic: Sometimes, Unnecessary, Complicated

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.

- Jonathan Coe

topic: Book, Talent, Complicated, Nervousness

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

- Joni Eareckson Tada

topic: Jesus, Complicated, Christianity

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

- Joyce Maynard

topic: Parent, Portraits, Complicated

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

- Julie Orringer

topic: Crumbling, Done, Complicated, Chapel

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

- Justin Timberlake

topic: Trying, Add, Complicated, Ocd

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

- Karen Miller

topic: Simple, Complicated

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

source: Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

topic: Believe, Life Is, Complicated

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

topic: People, Mental Health, Complicated

The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated

- Kid Cudi

topic: Complicated

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

- Kirk Hammett

source: "James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica Discuss Their 1997 Album, 'Re-Load'". The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. December, 1997.

topic: Complicated, Metallica, Fragile Things

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

- Kristin Scott Thomas

topic: Simple, Way, Complicated

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Complicated, Machinery, Unpredictable, Cats Cradle, Bokonon

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

- Laura San Giacomo

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fun, Complicated, Intense

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

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Women, Together, Complicated, Living Together

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

- Lauren Bacall

topic: Friendship, World, Complicated

Sometimes people do things that are complicated. For complicated reasons.

- Lauren Barnholdt

topic: People, Sometimes, Complicated

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

- Lauren Cohan

source: "Lauren Cohan of 'The Walking Dead' Admits 'Guts in Your Hair Really Is No Fun'". Interview with Jennifer Hirshlag, www.elle.com. October 13, 2013.

topic: Hurt, Complicated, Ends, Hurting Myself

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

- Lawrence Durrell

topic: Thinking, Life Is, Complicated

Nothing makes a person weaker than complicated thinking.

- Lee Jin-wook

topic: Thinking, Complicated, Persons

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

- Libba Bray

topic: Oddities, Individuality, Complicated

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'.

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Confusion, Confusing, Complicated, Interfaces, Gnome

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...

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Wine, Complicated, Truth Is, Cellars

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

- Livy

topic: Complicated, Reason

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

- Louis Simpson

source: Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.191, BOA Editions, Ltd.

topic: Complicated, Conscience

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Philosophical, Language, Complicated

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.

- Maggie Gyllenhaal

source: "Maggie Gyllenhaal: At 37 I was 'too old' for role opposite 55-year-old man" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2015.

topic: Real, Actresses, Complicated

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

- Malaclypse the Younger

topic: Complicated, Jokes

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

- Manuel Puig

topic: Needs, Stories, Complicated

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Evil, Sometimes, Complicated, Scoffing

Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Complicated, Said, Immortal

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

- Margaret MacMillan

source: Margaret MacMillan (2010). “The Uses and Abuses of History”, p.127, Profile Books

topic: Feel Good, Generations, Complicated

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

- Marie Howe

topic: Silence, Complicated

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

- Marquis de Custine

topic: Complicated, Rigor, Circumstances

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

- Martha Stewart

topic: Business, Life Is, Complicated

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

- Martin Parr

topic: Photography, World, Complicated

It's nothing that complicated, I just want to kill him

- Masashi Kishimoto

topic: Want, Complicated

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

- Matt Ridley

topic: Falling In Love, People, Complicated

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

- Matt Taibbi

topic: People, Complicated, Subjects

The trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated.

- Matthew Waterhouse

topic: Complicated, Trouble

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

- Maurice Saatchi

topic: Sibling, Looks, Complicated, Family Relationship

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

- Max Horkheimer

topic: Philosophy, Complicated, Procedures

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

- Maxim Gorky

topic: Raw Materials, Complicated, Lumber, Processing

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

- Mel Gibson

source: "Fictional character: Martin Riggs". "Lethal Weapon", www.imdb.com. 1987.

topic: Way, Complicated

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.

- Meshell Ndegeocello

topic: Ideas, Normal, Complicated

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

- Michael Kinsley

topic: Lying, Complicated, Conventions, Journalistic

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Conservative, Complicated, Problem

Love is so complicated, that is why it is love.

- Mike Gayle

topic: Love Is, Complicated

We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.

- Milton William Cooper

topic: Way, Complicated, Sometimes, Wordplay, Wrong Way

i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..

- Miranda July

topic: Depressing, Way, Complicated

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

- Miuccia Prada

topic: Nostalgia, Complicated, Subjects

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

- Neil Finn

topic: Stupid, Long, Complicated, Stupid Things

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

- Nick Carter

topic: Funeral, Complicated, My Family

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

- Nicolas Chamfort

topic: Happiness, Watches, Complicated, Deranged

I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.

- Osamu Dazai

topic: Women, Feelings, Complicated

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,

- Pablo Casals

topic: Answers, Complicated, Helplessness

When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Worry, Ugly, Complicated

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

- Patricia Briggs

topic: Thinking, Littles, Complicated

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

- Patricia Briggs

topic: Vampire, Looks, Complicated

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

- Paul Keres

topic: Chess, Complicated, Fischer

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

- Paul Rusesabagina

source: Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2006.

topic: Breathing, Long, Complicated

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

- Paul Valery

topic: Thinking, Men, Complicated

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

- Paula McLain

topic: Complicated

Reality is always too complicated - that's why it's ungraspable.

- Pedro Juan Gutierrez

topic: Reality, Complicated

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

topic: Bored, Complicated, Said, Being Bored

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

- Poul Anderson

source: Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969

topic: Motivational, Way, Complicated, Science Research, Academic Research

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

- Prince Andrew

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ideas, People, Complicated, Head Of State, Human Form

Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Heart, Complicated, Easy

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.

- Rebecca Taylor

topic: Wisdom, Trying, Complicated, They Said

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.

- Richard Ford

topic: Want, Married, Complicated

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

- Richard Madden

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Trying, Complicated, Aspect

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

- Roald Dahl

topic: Childhood, Secret, Complicated, Quirks

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.

- Rob Pike

topic: Simple, Complicated, Modern

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

- Robert Adams

topic: Children, Looks, Complicated