Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in reconfiguring a host crab as a support system, all underscore the myopia of our conventional wisdom in regarding rhizocephalans as degenerate parasites because the adult anatomy of internal roots and external sac seem so simple.

Stephen Jay Gould

We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

Bobby Knight

We just never really were able to do very much with them. It's a simple thing. They're a much better team than we are, and we couldn't play with them.

We just lost, simple as that. They killed us on the boards.

We got out-hustled today. We did not do the simple things that we need to get done to win.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

Kevin Garnett

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

Kenny Chesney

I live on a boat two months out of the year, and if I did not have that then I don't know how I'd be able to handle all this.... I am a very intense person on stage. I have to remember why I am there, what I am doing. You can spend all day backstage preparing for the show and lose sight of why you are doing this. Off stage, I am a very simple kind of guy. I live my life in flip-flops.

Ken Jeong

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

Karl Malone

When we play the game like we're supposed to play it, it is pretty easy. Making the extra pass, making the simple play, it's not about between your legs, behind your back, and all of that, it's just about scoring the bucket.

Karl Marx

...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism.

Karl Marx

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Jules Verne

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

This team's been really resilient. They've never panicked. It's really as simple as that.

Jim Horning

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jessica Szohr

My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Jess Walter

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

Glen Mazzara

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

Harry von Zell

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Neil Gershenfeld

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

It sounds like a simple thing to do, but trust me, it isn't.

It's as simple as understanding the environments in your home. The first thing you need to know is: water is bad.

It may have been a simple fix, but he didn't want to work with us.

It's not a simple process. It's an important part of the plan, but just one small step.

LeBron James

As long as he's open, I'm going to him. He's made big shots, it's as simple as that.

Paul Valery

Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.

Darius Kasparaitis

Everything comes from the first 10 minutes. We have to come out hard, play simple and play our system.

Georges St-Pierre

As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Herbie Hancock

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

Herbert Spencer

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.

Henry David Thoreau

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.