“I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.” PeopleThinkingEnoughCharacterLeftLinesFieldsComplexesUnexpectedIntriguingSitcomOne LineLeft Field Author:Pete Postlethwaite
“People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.” PeopleIfsStatesWholeWantedCoursesAsksLeftMusicSeriesComplexesStatementsAsk MeAmbiguityAmerican Pie Author:Don McLean
“I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.” PeopleThinkingHumansCareLeftSidesEmotionalBedCreaturesConcernIntelligentComplexesAffectionTake CareDelicateMalnutritionPerishingFussing Author:Robertson Davies
“The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.” WarLeftPeacePoliticianComplexes Book:Against the Current: Selected Writings 1939-1996 Source: Against the Current: Selected Writings 1939-1996
“my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.” LeftMy OwnAnimalEatingComplexesScrap Book:Small Wonder Source: Small Wonder
“With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.” StoriesLeftHonestFemaleBraveryComplexesInsightBonesProseTerritoryFiltersBreathlessMadeline Author:Alissa Nutting
“An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” KnowsHas BeensMadeSaidI CanHelpingFeelingsMightLeftWaitingSoundAtheismDesignPositionComplexesAtheistCome UpFollowingPositive AtheismMade ItExplanationFulfilledMight Have BeenUnsatisfiedSelfish GeneHumeFeeling Pretty Author:Richard Dawkins
“I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.” YearsHouseEnergyLeftWhiteTakenCarSixHundredComplexesGasWhite HouseEfficiencyEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesEnergy Efficiency Author:William J. Clinton
“The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who he has likely never met and who is actually thousands of readers.” TryingOrderLeftLanguageReaderMetsComplexes Author:George Saunders