Quotes About Simplicity

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'

There's something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I'm like, 'Why is this so easy and sweet?'

People who know me know that I'm not going to open my mouth and say something if I don't mean it. I'm very short and sweet. I'm old-school when it comes to it: I say what I mean and mean what I say, and then get off of it. It's simple as that.

I like a girl who doesn't play any games. I like a very sweet girl.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing.

For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.

I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother.

We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.

I think simple's good. That's why I enjoy swimming. It's very primitive, very simple.

I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.

The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

I try to keep it real simple. I try not to add a lot of frosting on what I'm doing. Just take the swing and don't muscle the swing, because if you get in the hitting position and you take the swing, I generate a lot more bat speed, and that works for me.

My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.

I think of three things, and that's it. Just keep it short and take it outside and swing it left.

I've got a good game plan... keep things simple with my golf swing.

I usually like to keep my hair and makeup routines pretty simple after I work out but always need a little bit of mascara to finish off the look. I just swipe some on and then am good to go for the rest of the day.

I don't like to wear much makeup when I'm off-duty, so I usually just swipe on my Lakme lip balm, wear a little mascara and I'm ready to head out the door.

Read labels in your favorite products. Look for short lists of simple, less-processed ingredients with names you recognize as food. If you find some of the same ingredients in your cereal as your shampoo, maybe it's time to switch to something simpler.

I'm a very simple and calm man, but when the camera is switched on, acting begins.

I sometimes wish I had a good 'one syllable, one syllable' name, like Brad Pitt.