Sophisticated Quotes - Page 4

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

You've seen certain credit type products that are going to be in nonbanks, like sophisticated CLO [collateralized loan obligation] tranches and stuff where the capital charge is so high that a bank simply will not own it. Someone will buy it, hedge it, trade it. But it won't typically be a bank.

Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.

Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

Russia has a very sophisticated, advanced attack on U.S. businesses and U.S. government and U.S. institutions. And it's not like Donald Trump is going to be walking away from this. He will be spending a lot of time on it, if he's any sort of normal president.

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.

In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder. You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.