Quotes About Author

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.

It's called 'John Wick' - it's really about this guy's very simple journey. We just didn't want to clutter it. It's gratifying it in its own right, in its simplicity.

I loved 'La La Land.' I would love to do a film like 'La La Land' which has so much simplicity and joy of cinema in it.

I wear a lot of block colour dresses on television as the simplicity translates well on camera and blue is often a colour I rely on as it goes with everything.

The simplicity I felt hearing the script of 'Panchayat' was so good. I came back home with such a happy feeling, I wanted to work on the show immediately.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Some liberals have a problem with me simply because I work at Fox, and nothing I do short of storming off the set in a rage will get them to respect that I work there.

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fought in your imagination. Perhaps then you will acquire the humility of a man and bear yourself no longer as the demigod you presume yourself to be.

instill courage not by his words alone but by the calm and professional manner with which he spoke them. War is work, not mystery.

He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.

At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his life. But since he hadn't done much living, there wasn't much substance.

RESISTANCE AND PROCRASTINATION   Procrastination is the most common manifestation of Resistance because it's the easiest to rationalize. We don't tell ourselves, "I'm never going to write my symphony." Instead we say, "I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

I hold Olympic records for procrastination. I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem.

Achilles is no ancestor, nine hundred years gone. He strides here, this instant, in my heart.

I don't know what you're writing, Steve. I don't want to know. I'll never read it. I'll never judge it. All I ask of it, and of you, is that it come from that sacred space inside you and that it stay true, as you write it, to the ideals of that hallowed precinct.

All right-thinking people respect and love the Beatles. Never trust anyone who doesn't.

The most distinguishing characteristic of the current national Republican Party is cowardice