Intricate Quotes - Page 5

• But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

  Carl Sagan

  Able, Imagine, Subtle

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.422, Ballantine Books

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• I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

  King Krule

  Uncles, Lines, Rhythm

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

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• Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

  Brandon Boyd

  Creative, Painting, Problem

  "Ectoplasm: In the Art Studio with Incubus' Brandon Boyd". Interview with Erin Broadley, www.laweekly.com. September 18, 2008.

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• I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.

  Helen Vendler

  Teaching, Together, Spiders

  "Helen Vendler: Poetry Critic and Fan of Art History". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. November 17, 2012.

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• During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

  Martin Rees

  Essence, Together, Atoms

  "We're the 'waste' from distant stars" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2008.

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• Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Effort, Focus

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• An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.

  Jay Abraham

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Simple

  Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.8, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it's so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don't yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you'd look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.

  Jane Hamilton

  Morning, Fall, Rain

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• I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

  Mick Ebeling

  Art, Design, Graffiti

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• Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Money, Men

  John Gray (2009). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Practical Guide for Improving Communication”, p.36, Zondervan

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• In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.

  Marcella Hazan

  Italian, Long, Kitchen

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• I really try and work very closely with the designers to be as consistent as possible to their vision and for their look because I know how intricate and how much time it takes for them to make it. My mother was a seamstress and I really honor the art of each piece that's made and so for me it's all about that.

  Jaime King

  Mother, Art, Honor

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

  Michael Denton

  Men, Cells, Atoms

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• Value investing is simple to understand but difficult to implement. Value investors are not supersophisticated analytical wizards who create and apply intricate computer models to find attractive opportunities or assess underlying value. The hard part is discipline, patience, and judgment. Investors need discipline to avoid the many unattractive pitches that are thrown, patience to wait for the right pitch, and judgment to know when it is time to swing.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Simple, Swings

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• Like, a song could be really tricky and intricate and be really intellectually stimulating, but I don't think that's the song that that I'm going to throw on 80% of the time. The songs that I really want to listen to are the ones that I can really feel.

  Theresa Wayman

  Song, Thinking, Want

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• As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque forms and events -- in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Tangled, Grace

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• Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.

  Carl Zimmer

  Communication, Heart, Breathing

  Carl Zimmer (2014). “Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.

  Gabriel Mann

  Character, Order, Together

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• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Past, Men

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson (1781). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.378

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• Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My range is about one and a half notes. I ended up talking the musical numbers, which was revolutionary at the time. The lyrics are extremely intricate. They move along like a precisely acted scene. If you miss a word - heaven help you - the orchestra rattles past like an express train, and you've got to run like the devil to catch up.

  Rex Harrison

  Running, Teacher, Block

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

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• Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar...although we think it is familiar. The processes of the wonderful narratives are very intricate. It's about the charm - the spellbinding charm - of ingenuity, and it's not so easy to remember the plots or the structure or even the names.

  Marina Warner

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to retrace my steps quite a lot, because the stories are very intricate and the material is elusive, and possibly with age, my memory is not as malleable as it used to be.

  Marina Warner

  Memories, Writing, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the album 'Nothing Personal' is a lot more grittier and a lot more honest from a lyrical standpoint. Also, musically it's the most intricate and most thought-out record that we've ever recorded.

  Jack Barakat

  Thinking, Albums, Records

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• Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Simple, Reality, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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• There are no real coincidences in life for those with faith strong enough to recognize coincidences for what they really are: intricate pieces of the providential design God created for each of our lives.

  Delia Parr

  Strong, Real, Design

  Delia Parr (2010). “Love's First Bloom (Hearts Along the River Book #2)”, p.312, Bethany House

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