Quotes about simple
simple thinking complicated
Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. James L. Brooks
simple ideas simple-ideas
The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas. Joe Grant
simple thinking pieces
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. Joan Didion
simple greatness people
Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it’s that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone. Eric Thomas
simple law ideas
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. Eric Liu
simple america identity
Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
simple thinking people
People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big. Eric Fellner
simple dvds years
My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD, that's it, simple.
simple people waiting
If you ask me can you explain the success of Facebook or Twitter, its very simple. People want to have the right to speak, people want the right to say what they feel. They don't want to wait for the question to be asked, they want to say before asking the question, they want to say everything that they feel. Emmanuel Petit
simple poetry impassioned
Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned. Emma Lazarus
simple people attention
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. John F. Kerry
simple emotional needs
We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.
simple rocks atheism
Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves. John Osborne
simple journey discovery
Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in the bland middle region of respectability are lost without ever realizing it. John O'Donohue
simple self ambitious
[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay. John Desmond Bernal
simple answers complicated
How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer? John Diamond
simple ordinary terrible
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. Leo Tolstoy
simple ignorant witchcraft
Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned. Leigh Brackett
simple obvious-things common
Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well. Leo Burnett
simple men issues
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values. Leo Strauss
simple reality ideas
In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive. Leo Buscaglia
simple hands saws
Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones. Lee Trevino
simple data creative
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed. Lawrence Lessig
simple law answers
Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?
simple challenges scream
In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap. Larry Niven
simple balls gone
I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide Lewis Carroll
simple turtles taught-us
The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.
simple lazy simple-life
I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life. Karl Pilkington
simple statements greater
Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and because they are better testable. Karl Popper
simple nihilism atoms
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
simple quality want
All I look for is good quality stuff. Whatever I read, if I like it, then I want to do it. It's as simple as that. I don't have a master plan of, "I should do this genre, and then this." Karen Gillan
simple people want
I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people. Julio Iglesias
simple facts able
The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love. Joyce Brothers