Quotes About Simplicity

I never wear any makeup over the weekend, unless I'm going to a wedding!

During the week it isn't always easy to sit down together and I am usually in a rush to get everyone off to school. A bowl of cereal and milk with fruit is perfect because it's quick and easy. I like to mix it up on the weekends when we can all relax in our pajamas.

I spend my weekends with my Android phone in an elastic band that has tied to my Android phone my driver's license and my credit card. That's how I live. I'm not carrying a wallet anymore. Like, a wallet is a medieval item, right?

I didn't read a lot of comic books. But I was into 'Dandy and The Beano,' which were like a weekly pulp fiction that featured characters like Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace, and Billy Whizz - pretty simplistic stuff but very entertaining.

I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's beautiful. What I enjoy is taking my food and cooking for myself.

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

It's nice when I have days off to go home and relax and literally take the weight off my shoulders and enjoy the simple things.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

I don't have any weird gimmicks. I do put on lipstick for the show. That's what separates it. 'Cause I don't wear makeup at all... That's probably the closest thing I have to a routine.

People are a lot less weird than they might seem.

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

I get very upset when people start adding weird things to romesco.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

Well, to be frank I like natural beauty. Not artificial.

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

I don't think my basic business strategy is well known by the public, probably because people think it's too simple. My strategy has always been to try to focus in on a product or service where you can create a dollar of value for 20 cents and sell it for 40 cents.