#complicate

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#acquired taste #complicates #free #instinctively #left

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#get #i #make #themselves #things

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield. ↗

— Melissa Gilbert

#daughter #examples #four #frustrations #god

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#even #everything #flat #sadness #seem

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american #chief #complicates #cultural #emerson

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#blues #city #complicated #difficult #dog

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#complicated #most #most powerful #opportunities #powerful

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before. ↗

— Rick Moody

#because #before #big #big deal #character

I like complicated characters. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#complicated #i #like

They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#kisses #talking #kate