Quotes about simple
simple men animal
I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength. Henry David Thoreau
simple men style
Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.
simple men land
I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.
simple simplicity plot
I love a life whose plot is simple.
simple realizing simple-living
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
simple simplicity use
To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?
simple years supposing-that
A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.
simple imagination simplicity
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
simple play piano
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. Gyorgy Ligeti
simple thinking answers
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong... H. L. Mencken
simple ideas earth
Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.
simple expression soul
It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
simple vanity ego
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
simple secret half
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. Jilly Cooper
simple this-life hanging-out
I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends. Jill Scott
simple survival secret
Adaptability is the simple secret of survival. Jessica Hagedorn
simple scene ends
It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it. Jessica Lange
simple rights nonsense
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. Jeremy Bentham
simple vegetables chinese
Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them! Jeff Smith
simple news way
You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive. Jiang Zemin
simple thinking brain
All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously and in parallel, not linearly, but the actual chemistry and electrical properties of that integrative process are still being mapped. Even so, it seems odd that during the evolution of brain circuitry and thinking, the ability to understand itself did not get wired in. Such built-in innocence seems like a terrible oversight. Gretel Ehrlich
simple shoes alps
The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves. Groucho Marx
simple desire companionship
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. Graham Greene
simple intelligent worst-enemy
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
simple men perfect
The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded. Gregory David Roberts
simple night sky
Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques. Honor Harger
simple artist people
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love. Igor Stravinsky
simple brain enough
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. Ian Stewart
simple expression comfort
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots. Iain Banks
simple complicated made
All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself. Hugh Prather
simple simplicity quality
The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.
simple risk trying
It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.
simple self mind-your-own-business
All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust. Howell Raines