Sophistication Quotes

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci

Simplicity, Ultimate

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana

Spirit, Simplicity, Foe

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David Byrne

Death, True, Try

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
Ang Lee

Happen, Movie, Fast

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber

Husband, Situation, Might

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
Joni Mitchell

Happiness, Understand, Why

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
Don Herold

Else, Sense, Less

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
Vera Wang

Business, Wedding, Find

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer

Wise, Jungle, Giant

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
Uma Thurman

Machine, Options, Washing

I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.
Dita Von Teese

Together, Idea, High

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
Sade Adu

Live, Thanks, British

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.
David Zucker

Funny, Time, Successful

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Christopher Hampton

Thought, Rather, Decadence

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
Bill Budge

Everything, Getting, Bigger

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Rand Beers

Dangerous, Next, Crime

Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.
Cheech Marin

Experience, Guy, Hollywood

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

Best, Control, Different

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

May, Become, Less

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
Iain Glen

Woman, Become, Her

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
Bill Conti

Music, Place, Write

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim

Music, Write, Emotion

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