684 Complex Quotes for You to Enjoy

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance. Elias James Corey

Work Beautiful Art Nature Approaching Perception Beauty Understanding Other Synthetic Complex Structures Studied Perhaps Chemical Chemist Subject Any Romance Depends Transformations Creations Molecules Even Her Level Treasured

Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction. Elif Safak

Culture Women Will Men Country Changing Books Complex Hopefully Would See About General Poems More Write Written Generations Like Most Mostly Read Readers Passionate However Patriarchal Fiction Pattern Turkey Should Novels Plays

I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama. Elizabeth Price

Work Try Cinematic Complex Melodrama Something Between Like PowerPoint Looks Make Genres Lecture Dense Move Intentionally Forms Things

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality. Ellen Pompeo

Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy. Ellen Ullman

Relationship Car Rich Our Complex Computer Like Messy Much Socially

Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster. Ellen Ullman

People Depend Everyone Complex Systems Tendency Toward Disaster Occasional Dealing Nasty Been Years Muddled Showing Technical

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. Elliott Abrams

Difficult Relations States Complex Eastern America Often Egypt Middle Middle Eastern

The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics. Emanuel Celler

Complex Inferior Europe Now Extended Save

I've never loved a character as much as I do Niska. The way she's been written is so complex, with huge amounts of light and dark. It's a really satisfying challenge to play someone who is superhuman in their intelligence and physical ability but completely naive when it comes to certain aspects of life. Emily Berrington

Life Character Intelligence Dark Light Challenge Way Complex Ability Physical Physical Ability Someone Superhuman Never Written Naive She Been Huge Huge Amounts Loved Much Really Certain Aspects Who Satisfying Play Amount

I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It's a little hectic. Emily Meade

Life Time Sometimes Too Much Focus Trouble Personal Life Nothing Too Drama Too Much Time Complex Always Very Get Personal Goes Romance As Far As Either Hectic Little Far Much Working

Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations. Enda Kenny

Confidence Legal Will Indeed Negotiations Complex Jobs Determined Rather Deliver Support Institutional Well How Ultimately Than Public Euro Union European European Union Technical Growth

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions. Eric Kandel

Thoughts Experience Emotions Organ Our Complex Immense Possessing Constructs Computational Brain Controls Sensory Capability Actions Biological

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before. Eric Kandel

Together Science Age Culture Mind Before Way Complex Insight Brought More Had Emphasized New Existed Than New Way Human Modernism Create Vienna View Human Mind Ever

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory. Eric Whitacre

Music Think Complex Frankly Write Never Terms Sounds Theory

I usually look for stories with barriers to entry, something complex enough that no one else is going to do it. Erik Larson

Enough Else Complex Something Entry No-One Look Going Stories Barriers

At first glance, the story of the Lusitania doesn't seem like the sort of thing I would take on. I usually like ideas that are a little bit more complex, things that people don't know about - or maybe they once did, but now you bring it to life for them for the first time. Erik Larson

Life Time You People First Once Bit Complex Would About Seem More Take Glance Like Ideas Know Sort First Time Did Maybe Story Little Little Bit Them Now Thing Things Bring

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically. Eriq La Salle

God You Doctor Satan Treat Thought Say Complex OK Complexes Characters Would Would-Be Fine See Well Him How Scientifically Normally Person Interesting Capitalize Chooses

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. Ernie Harwell

Religion Business Simple Sometimes Bat Complex Spirit Almost Sport Ball Came American Just American Spirit Even Baseball

I don't want to say too many words about the magic of the Cube, because it's basically a mystery. It's like the Mona Lisa smile. It's both complex and very simple at the same time. And, well, people like it. Even today. Erno Rubik

Today Smile Time People Words Simple Too Say Complex Magic About Both Mystery Like Well Because Cube Very Same Same Time Want Many Even Mona Basically

The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests. Eugene Jarecki

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic thrust behind it. It's hard to shut off because politicians rely upon the steady flow of jobs to their district that the prison system and its related industries promise. Eugene Jarecki

You Prison Politicians Related Complex System Jobs Promise District Steady Rely Thrust Put Mass Term Industrial Industries Call Because Off Bureaucratic Behind Incarceration Hard Shut Flow

The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on. Eugene Jarecki

Party Tea Group Thinking Analysis Complex Kind Involved Himself Policy Reagan Very Decision-Making Ronald Reagan Public Tea Party Public Policy Deep Rejects

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide. Eva Green

Work Will Everything Complex Characters Dreaming Give Directors Like Obvious Been Very Roles Gods Decide Jane Far Working Lucky

Complex Quotes

No more complex quotes