Quotes About Simplicity

When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.

In the building of a basic wardrobe, we cannot go wrong if we strive for simplicity and perfect fitting.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that's something that helps me - finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

I think what people are really crying out for is simple information they can trust when they're bombarded by attack ads, fundraising pitchers and all sort of comment and opinion all over the place increasingly.

It's having the confidence to go out there and say, 'You know what? I need to go out there and throw those pitches where I need to throw them,' and make it as simple as that.

I like small parties with people I know. I like eating pizza at home with my girlfriend.

I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I did, I'd never leave the house - you'd find me in six months, dead under a pile of pizza boxes.

I just love country. It just felt like that's the place to go and live life.

When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.

I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.

I would describe myself as a very plain but very honest person.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

I ain't flash. I'm just plain old Shaun, the same as I was when I grew up in South London.

I don't like them with 55 toppings. I like burgers how I like my pizza: plain and simple.

Oh, we don't have a grandiose marketing plan. We sell products that work, that we like.

I don't want to buy a jet plane. I don't want to live with an entourage.

I am probably one of the last people on the planet without a cell phone.