IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. – A. N. Wilson
We’ll see some simplistic players for a while, who’ll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music. – Billy Sheehan
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning. – Aristotle
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those ‘others’. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. – Alija Izetbegovic
As one who has been in hard situations, I believe that I know how to deal with complicated and hard situations. – Ariel Sharon
I didn’t follow the whole ‘X-Men’ story because it got too complicated. I’d pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on. – Aaron Stanford
Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet. – Maurice Saatchi
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. – Marquis De Custine
Breaking up is just hard, even if you’re the one breaking up. It’s not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic? – Norah Jones
‘Emma’ is my favorite Jane Austen novel – one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong. – Cathleen Schine
When you’re little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated. – Clare Balding
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make. – Charles Cumming
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. – Nora Ephron
The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I’m drawn to puzzly, complicated plots. – Elise Broach
There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. – E. B. White
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines. – Mark McKinnon
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on. – Marie Windsor
It’s a very complicated issue, this fame thing – I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it’s difficult for a private person like myself. – Edie Falco
The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising – mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It’s agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate. – Martin Rees
Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you’re not very secure about what you’re doing. – Elena Anaya
I don’t think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don’t think he’s primarily marvelous; he’s complicated. – Eugene Jarecki
Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia – hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city. – David Eagleman
I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste – now that’s what I call memory! – Morton Feldman
I’m not after a closed system, I mean I’m after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don’t think that everything should be decided. – Mark Morris
It’s a complicated issue, and you can’t boil it down in a tweet… two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate… The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals. – Dan Carter
What is it that keeps you so interested in the telomere? It’s so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works. – Elizabeth Blackburn
Any ideas of ‘other’ are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of ‘normal.’ – Meshell Ndegeocello
