Quotes about simple
simple may language
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 Spencer
simple play 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. Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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 order use
It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power. Esther Dyson
simple men animal
An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell. Ernst Haeckel
simple breathing cities
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight. Ernest Hemingway
simple people together
I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
simple cities paris
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
simple people
I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people. Evita Peron
simple indulge-in excess
The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me. Etty Hillesum
simple ideas example
[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.
simple
Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple. Ernest Holmes
simple stories sound
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship. Erle Stanley Gardner
simple men democracy
All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent. Fisher Ames
simple squares needs
I am not a multimillionaire. I dont own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple. Ferran Adria
simple thinking people
Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it. Henry Miller