Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Auguste Rodin

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

Ayelet Waldman

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

Brian Tracy

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

Brad Goreski

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.

Jamie Farr

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

Branch Rickey

The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.

Billy Corgan

In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.

Billy Corgan

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Brandon Sanderson

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Ben Okri

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Anders Hejlsberg

I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity.

Jared Diamond

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Albert Einstein

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

Ali Smith

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

Douglas Adams

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

Simon Greenleaf

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.