“The tremendous sophistication and collaborative work that goes on in communities, which are under siege, they're desperately impoverished, and the backbone of all of that are the women of Africa.”
Stephen Lewis
“You need a class like this because many people who work in the policy world have a sophisticated understanding of foreign cultures and the ... challenges surrounding nuclear issues, but not the science that underlies many of those concerns.”
Daniel Byman
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
Jack Kerouac
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
Camille Paglia
“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”
Norman Mailer
