Quotes about simple
simple profound type
The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound. Michael Heizer
simple thinking giving
Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience. Michael Haneke
simple people feudal-system
Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.
simple like-her jazz
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach. Merle Haggard
simple justice people
Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice. Mason Cooley
simple challenges irony
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
simple ideas common-sense
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks. Marvin Minsky
simple thinking play
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them. Michael Frayn
simple accepting bigger
She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.... Michael Connelly
simple feminism stuff
Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down. Mia Wasikowska
simple hard
No - simple to pronounce, hard to say. Melody Beattie
simple despair trying
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214
simple ideas two
String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music. Michio Kaku
simple thinking differences
I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done. Michel Hazanavicius
simple thinking law
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event. Michel Foucault
simple ideas oxygen
He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope. Michael J. Fox
simple squares years
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober. Martha Reeves
simple everyday-problems solutions
I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems. Martha Stewart
simple expression impact
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth. Mark Rothko
simple matter tents
I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D. Mark Canton
simple taught advancement
I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple. Marie Curie
simple practice days-off
You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way. Mariel Hemingway
simple people breakfast
I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast.
simple perspective people
In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple. Mark Zuckerberg
simple emergencies beginners
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. Ted Nelson
simple two telling-the-truth
What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do. Ted Cruz
simple likeable
It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.
simple trying remember
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that. Theodore Sturgeon
simple wish events
I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing. Theodore Roethke
simple world glimpse
I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world. Theodore Bikel
simple vacuums purity
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum. Theodor Adorno
simple today difficult
It is difficult to discuss history, and more difficult to talk about now, today, even simple things. Thabo Mbeki
simple pieces village
Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time. Terry Riley