Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with elaborate societies.

- Alexander McCall Smith

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

- Adrienne Clarkson

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

- Anita Baker

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

- Alma Gluck

I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

- Alice Englert

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

- Alex Tabarrok

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

- Anton Yelchin

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

- Anton Yelchin

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

- Ann Beattie

I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.

- Amish Tripathi

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

- Andrew Weil

People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.

- Aidan Gillen

London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.

- Adam Schlesinger

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

- Athol Fugard

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

- Arlo Guthrie

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

- Alex Berenson

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

- Adam Ant

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

- Ava DuVernay

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

- Anton Chekhov

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

- Angelina Jolie