Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Bach

The simplest things are often the truest.

Robert Fripp

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

Robert Fripp

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

Rita Rudner

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.

Rita Mae Brown

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Rick Owens

Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.

Richard Thaler

One simple step firms can take is make sure that people that are getting paid a lot of money, say more than a million or two, that a big chunk of that money is deferred. That's going to change the whole ballgame.

Renee Ellmers

The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for them. It's because they understand Republican policies perfectly well. Women vote against Republicans because they know the impact Republican policies have on their lives.

Renee Fleming

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Thomas Paine

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

Thomas Huxley

Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.

Thomas Eakins

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

Tom Peters

It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.

Tom Robbins

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

Tom McClintock

Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.

Tommy Wiseau

I'm not a god, I'm just a simple guy.

Steve Wozniak

The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it’s so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don’t want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here’s a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do,

Steve Forbes

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

Stephen Dunn

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Viktor E. Frankl

...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

Vannevar Bush

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

V. E. Schwab

Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

V. S. Naipaul

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Suzanne Collins

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

Scott Walker

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

Steven Morrissey

If you respect or love animals you could never eat them. It's that simple

Steven Morrissey

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

Steven Cojocaru

I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all.

Sue Grafton

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

Steven Weinberg

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

Richard Hamming

I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.

Richard Hammond

And to Mindy, I can only ever say a simple thank you. And dedicate the rest of my life to her.

Richard Adams

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.