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“A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.”

People Should Made Two Real Simple Strange Involved Wedding Formal Ceremony Vow Solemn Real Questions Unison

Book:The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

Source: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Giving Looks Kids Young Simple Acting Cases Painful Profession

Author:Ethan Hawke

“The best movies are simple.”

Actors Simple Movie

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I am a simple Buddhist monk.”

Simple Buddhist Monk Buddhist Monk

Book:Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Source: Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

“Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.”

Ifs Simple Okay Silly Buddhist Nonsense Monk Buddhist Monk

Author:Dalai Lama

“"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.”

Men Giving Writing War Simple Fate Diaries Manifestos Plain And Simple

Author:James Ellroy

“A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.”

Persons Two Bigs Water Simple Wife Cold Drink Died Drinking My Wife Girlfriend Bottles Pills Slides Drinkers Vodka Cold Water

Author:William Eggleston

“I try to appreciate the simple things. I've just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.”

Ifs Trying Simple Morning Son Appreciate Cups Enjoyed Tea Holiday Hotel My Son Simple Things Cups Of Tea Camping Posh

Author:Bill Bailey

“I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.”

Thinking World Kind Littles Real Happens House Bits Simple Fashion Strange Little Bit Fake Cleaning Fashion World Clean House Strange Times

Author:Alber Elbaz

“My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.”

People Thinking Beautiful Strong Simple Results Pieces Approach Clothings

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.”

People Ifs Thinking Character Hands Simple Ability Special Design Relate Animation Character Design

Author:Tomm Moore

“You gotta know who you are, I think, as a person, I'm a laidback guy. I'm very simple. It's simplicity with me. Everything else, having the 10 cars or the 20 cars is ludicrous.”

Thinking Knows Persons Guy Simple Car Who You Are Simplicity

Author:Darrelle Revis

“My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.”

Kind Simple Example Following Complexity Interaction

Author:David Byrne

“So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.”

Way Simple Perfect Dying Suicide Commit Smoke Smoking Marijuana

Author:Damien Hirst

“I have four kids in a private school who have not yet entered college. Their tuition is what keeps me motivated. Life is simple sometimes.”

Sometimes Kids School Life Is Simple Four College Motivated Tuition Private School Life Is Simple

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.”

Way Want Needs Sometimes Church Simple Harmony Old Ways

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins

“The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.”

World Way Mean Real Feelings Turns Stuff Loses Simple Compassion Awareness Greed Tricks Useless Absurdity Spirited Mean Spirited Real Feelings Midas Useless Stuff

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.”

Want Mind Heart Asks Simple Pages Understood Complexes Surface Complexity Heart And Mind Unspoken

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.”

Ifs Language Given Water Simple Secret Clear Mysterious Carrie Thirst Buckets Gallons

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.”

Ifs Knows Writing Moments Difficult Realizing Simple Wonder Novel Path Fool Pure Solutions Logic Mathematics Carrie Evident Difficult Questions

Author:Don DeLillo

“I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.”

“I don't spend my life getting dressed! I have to put clothes on during the day; I don't get dressed up at all when I'm working. I'll wear jeans, or something very simple.”

Simple Clothes Jeans Dressed Up Getting Dressed

Author:Iris Apfel

“I think the best shortcut is to choose really simple recipes. Because I think you can make simple recipes that are as delicious as complicated ones.”

Thinking Simple Complicated Delicious Recipes Shortcuts

Author:Ina Garten

“When you go to bed at night, you get seven or eight hours of sleep. I've had enough sleep. I've rested, and it's as simple as that. I want to do it now. I didn't want to three years ago. I was waiting until it felt right. I wanted to get back to falling in love with my guitar again, and hanging out with my guitar like I would a friend.”

Want Years Enough Wanted Night Fall Three Felt Waiting Hours Sleep Simple Bed Years Ago Falling In Love Seven Guitar Eight Hanging Out Get Back Three Years Had Enough Enough Sleep

Author:Damien Rice

“I like to keep things simple. It's really about the wine, food and the beach view. Nothing can beat that.”

Simple Views Beats Wine Beach

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.”

Has Beens Simple Murder Tables Kitchen Tenderness Exquisite Kitchen Table

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.”

Simple Cold Gold Asking Packs Hawaii Jackets Scenarios Leather Inventing Simple Things Leather Jackets

Author:Shaun White

“How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep talks, and shoot them with tranquilizer darts whenever they try to crawl, on hunger-weakened limbs, toward the packet of rice cakes that constitutes the entire food supply in their 37,000-square-foot mansions. For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).”

Giving Trying Use Simple Feet Hunger Fats Meals Cake Squares Nutrition Limbs Advise Rice Trainers Mansions Toothpaste Darts Food Supply Pep Pep Talk Rice Cakes

Author:Dave Barry

“Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.”

Littles Imagination Simple Common Principles Computer Understood Common Sense

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.”

Mind Enough Water Simple Sea Boat Contentment Fishing Midst Vastness Beholder Fishing Boats

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.”

Thinking Mean Doe Simple Stupid

Author:Paul Krugman

“Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.”

Simple Healthy Routine Occasional Time Off Gaiety

Book:Becoming a Writer

Source: Becoming a Writer

“We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.”

Universe Simple Shirts Formulas T Shirt

Author:Leon M. Lederman

“The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.”

Source: Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith

“Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.”

Ifs Want Fun Simple Pure Basketball Having Fun Ymca

Author:Pat Riley

“Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in simple harmony and charity, lead the faithful to that consonance in which is no discord, and make those who still live on earth sign with heart and voice for the heavenly reward.”

Heart Stills Earth Sound Voice Simple Praise Harmony Charity Rewards Lifts Faithful Heavenly Multitudes Discord Consonance

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one, perhaps not - for dealing with the difference. The difference itself exists because it exists in their thinking.”

People Thinking Reality Lying Differences Simple Truth Is Conflict Argument Objectives Objective Reality

Author:Martin Luther

“The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.”

Able Speak Simple Risk Essentials Understood Clarity Insult

Book:The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires

Source: The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires

“Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?”

Ifs Littles Easy Simple Plans Heard Discipline Doctors Definitions Phrases Apples Distinction What If Definition Of Success

Author:Jim Rohn

“There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.”

Humans Doe Self Reason Earth Natural Simple Perfect Tools Species Invention Working It Selection Ongoing Not Perfect Natural Selection Correcting Cerebral Misused Human Inventions

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.”

Simple Kindness

Author:Dalai Lama

“The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.”

Humans Imagination Simple Fit Truth Is Distance Simple Truths Human Imagination Interstellar

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.”

Seems Would Be Simple Labour

Author:Paul Fussell

“Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.”

Three Waiting Simple Half Five Charity Saving Impulse Forty Quarters Sixty Saving Money

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.”

Problem Faces Simple Politician Solutions Complexes Agendas Simple Solutions

Book:The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda

Source: The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda

“Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days, And the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways.”

Way Feelings Found Simple Love Is Secret Special Simple Ways

Author:Kai Knudsen

“Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.”

Should Humans Care Fighting Passion Winning Justice Simple Ability Rich Conditions Honesty Concern Lawyer Chosen Human Condition Traits Will To Win Uncompromising

Author:Gerry Spence

“If you start to give of yourself, be it ever so simple a fashion, the world will observe your spirit and show you many needs that you can supply. There are a hundred ways of giving away little margins of time you will never miss, which could be riches to someone.”

Ifs World Way Needs Giving Littles Shows Spirit Simple Fashion Missing Hundred Riches Margins

Author:David Dunn

“Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread.”

Kind Whole Body Spirit Simple Our Lives Expression Excuse Bread Feds Compliment Behaviour Courtesy Gracious Wheat Excuse Me Kind Words

Author:Edward M Hays

“The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.”

Mind Ideas Together Certain Found Simple Numbers Reflection Senses Operations Exterior Simple Ideas

Author:John Locke

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