#sophistication

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 #decided #dress #find #get

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

#disease #face #glamour #horror #industry

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

#establishment #fast #filmmaking #happen #level

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

#becomes #cases #communicator #demonstration #entranced

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

#amount #attributed #best #cases #control

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

— Norman Mailer

#hip #jungle #primitive #sophistication #wise

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

#complex #emotions #europeans #experiencing #handle

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

— George Santayana

#foe #man #simplicity #sophistication #spirit

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

#aesthetic #composers #higher #i #illusions

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

#back #being #border #credit #crossed