Quotes about simple
simple stories process
Living is really pretty simple. Living happens right now; it doesn't happen back then, and it doesn't happen out there. Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now. Werner Erhard
simple needs doe
My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry. Werner Herzog
simple light needs
It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns. Samuel Beckett
simple water eruption
One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no. William H. Gass
simple existence
Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told. William Goldman
simple giving world
The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in. William Barclay
simple simplicity bigs
See it big, and keep it simple. Wilferd Peterson
simple heaven littles
There's always a little bit of heaven, even in a disaster area. Wavy Gravy
simple enlightenment ends
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence. Voltaire
simple enjoy-life life-is
Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success, William Feather
simple important our-actions
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far. William Landay
simple facts existence
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. William Hurt
simple thinking ideas
I think that's the direction we [the americans] are going to have to go, the idea of people understanding that if you see something, say something, as simple as it sounds. William Bratton
simple men fire
Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn? William Butler Yeats
simple doors light
The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony which will enable future scientists to visualize the universe as a unified whole, and will open the door to the New Age of Transmutation. Walter Russell
simple breathing two
In more simple words, we might say everything in the universe is trying to become every other thing; and every condition of everything is trying to become every other condition. A hot iron, for example, will strive to become as cool as its environment, and the cool environment will strive to become as hot as the hot iron. They compromise and find an equilibrium between the two, which is neither the one thing nor the other. This conspicuous fact is one of the most characteristic traits of Nature.
simple race ears
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. Walter Scott
simple years voice
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple. Walter Huston
simple digital theme
A theme of digital success is keeping it simple. Walter Isaacson
simple
When the ruble is weaker, it is easier to sell, to produce here for a cheap ruble and sell for an expensive dollar, get revenue in dollars and then exchange it for rubles and get a bigger income. This is simple. Vladimir Putin
simple simplicity foundation
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. William Morris
simple ease pearls
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung. William Jones
simple israel land
The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple. Yitzhak Shamir
simple thinking self
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. Winston Churchill
simple may facts
Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth. William S. Burroughs
simple fool genius
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. Woody Guthrie
simple capacity-to-love giving
Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more. Woody Allen
simple simplicity should
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. William Wordsworth
simple childhood liberty
Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.
simple mind relax
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium. William Shenstone
simple thinking despair
I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless. William Morris Hunt
simple squares giving
Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?
simple men simplicity
Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.