Sophistication Quotes - Page 8

• 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 Lodge

  Quality, Different, States

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Levels, Want

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• The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable, in which we strip off the sophistications of millenia of culture and report as directly as we can on what happens.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Science, Thinking, Culture

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

  Rand Beers

  Expansion, Next, Crime

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• I love every aspect of the show. I've been very involved. It was important for me to be very involved in, you know, all of the creative elements. And so, you know, it - David, you know, being brought onto the show, you know, that - I always just wanted to make sure that we maintained the sophistication and intelligence of (the) - and the comedy that we were able to establish in the mini-series.

  Debra Messing

  Creative, Important, Elements

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of things about who lives and who dies, civilizations that rose and fell, all the way down to individual characters. That becomes the state of where you left your galaxy. The endings have a lot more sophistication and variety in them.

  Casey Hudson

  Character, Obvious Things, Civilization

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• As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.

  Bryan Fuller

  Animal, Emotional, Thinking

  "'Hannibal' producer Bryan Fuller on cannibal cuisine, renewal and more". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 19, 2013.

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• I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Book, School

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• Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

  Allen Lacy

  Kids, Looks, Littles

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• The true essence of Chinese culture is sophistication, refinement, the spirit of poetry. The spirit of ink painting and calligraphy lives on forever. Calligraphy is more important than painting. Chinese always consider nature. Man is a very small part of nature. That's why in Chinese painting you see huge mountains and man very small, very humble before nature. You must be harmonious and one with nature. You don't fight it. And then there's a bit of a poetry. Of course, it's very complicated, but also very simple.

  Michael Chow

  Humble, Fighting, Simple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Rocks, Brave

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• Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

  John Green

  Inspiring, Pain, Thinking

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.35, Penguin

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