Simple Quotes

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

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

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.

Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Simple is the only way I can write.