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The anaerobic saprophyte Clostridium botulinum is simple to culture, requiring only
~ David Foster Wallace
And she began, forthwith, to tell her story—a tale so neat, simple, and artless that it was quite evident from hearing her that if ever there was a white-robed angel escaped from heaven to be subject to the infernal machinations and villainy of fiends here below, that spotless being—that miserable unsullied martyr, was present on the bed before Jos—on the bed, sitting on the brandy-bottle.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith: But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show, and promise of their mettle.
~ William Shakespeare
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.
~ William Shakespeare
Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we with our capacity to love that fives meaning to the indifferent universe, and yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things.
~ Woody Allen
The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.
~ Chuck Barris
Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop." "What?" "What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple." "Raisa, this is getting us nowhere." "Say it!
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Complicated. And yet—simple. They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
But the amusement that comes from watching people make fools of themselves isn't good. There's too much malice in it to please a heart more in key with simple joys. One can feel a mocking gaiety and still remain miserable. I think unhappiness may even engender such feelings. Sour pleasures feed off sour hearts.
~ Unknown
The whole place looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing. never the cause of pain.
~ Holly Black
The whole places looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing, never the cause of pain.
~ Holly Black
Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.
~ Linda Wells
I glory in the emotionally commonplace
~ Lionel Shriver
My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
My favorite fall meal has to be a simple roasted chicken. Ina Garten does a fabulous one. There is just something about roasting your own chicken and vegetables that screams 'fall' and 'home' to me.
~ Chrissy Teigen
Italian food is simple and healthy, and it's easier for a vegetarian to choose something from the menu.
~ Pavel Durov
I am a very simple cook, I just do the minimum amount. I'm mostly a vegetarian, so I just steam a lot of vegetables.
~ Carol Kane
Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.
~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole
modest mansion
~ Jeffery Deaver
information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness.  Its pages form the record of events that really happened.  All that has been done
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to the cooing of a pigeon. But that was in the afternoon. My only longing now was for a gun. Three
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Sometimes it was like a deep ache, the simple act of breathing in and out.
~ Jess Walter
I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.
~ Teddy Sears
God appreciates ordinary people
~ Sunday Adelaja