Complicated Quotes

People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated.

And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

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

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.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is 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.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Life is just too short, too unpredictable and too complicated. Be happy no matter what, a smile sometimes is all you need

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.

People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

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

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

Sometimes we make things too complicated when we really need to remember that the kingdom belongs to children.

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

As soon as you are complicated, you are ineffectual.

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

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

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

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

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

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

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

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

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

Only men who have worn a ski suit understand how complicated it is for a woman to go to the bathroom when she's wearing a jumpsuit.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

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

I have people that are affected by what I do, what I say, and that would be the one place where it gets complicated. But being honest and truthful - I just believe that's the best way to be.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

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

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.