Simple Quotes

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.

I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.

Music is entertainment, and all the various methods of consumption are out there. Go for what you like, simple as that!

The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants or black jeans. That's pretty much it.

The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

I had a lot of fun in those days. It was a great experience being in the Eastern Hockey League for the simple reason that you did not have a staff.

My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really high level.

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple.

'The chef on duty will constantly point out the time, name the next project, and finish with 'push!' The entire team then calls it back. It is a simple one, but it gives me goosebumps every time.

It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

I'm pretty simple, I don't use a hairbrush or a certain kind of hair product.

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.