Too Complicated Quotes

Why are you so interested in amoebas?"
"Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a
person is getting too complicated.
- Margaret Atwood

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
- Paul Auster

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
- Michael Bergdahl

As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her forehead.
- E M Forster

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
- Brad Bird

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
- Libba Bray

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
- James Brown

When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.
- Paul Brunton

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
- Bob Cousy

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
- Marquis De Custine

... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.
- Tana French

Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.
- Mark Haddon

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
- Tom Hanks

I'm sorry, is driving and talking too complicated? No problem, I'll shut up.
- Michelle Hodkin

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.
- Marie Howe

Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.
- Aldous Huxley

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.
- Eugene Jarvis

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
- Bill Joy

Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.
- Nigel Mansell

There is so much to know and we can only guess. Guess around him. To know him from these stray actions I am told about by those who loved him. And yet, he is still one of those books we long to read whose pages remain uncut. We are still unwise. It is not that he became too complicated but that he had reduced himself to a few things around him and he gave them immense meaning and significance.
- Michael Ondaatje

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.
- Richard Preston

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.
- Philip Pullman

People are too complicated to have simple labels.
- Philip Pullman

Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are...stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us...People are too complicated for labels.
- Philip Pullman

I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.
- Daniel Radcliffe

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
- Maurice Sendak

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

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
- Ron Taffel

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
- Rebecca West

Dante and this Palero were definitely playing some sort of game, and I didn't know the rules, which was fine with me. Whenever a game became too complicated, I just set the board on fire.
- Kenya Wright

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.
- Trisha Yearwood

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
- Zhang Ziyi