Quotes About Simplicity

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

That's what DSi is all about: Providing simple, quick-to-master experiences that everybody can pick up and enjoy.

Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

I am much more happy in a country pub with 10 blokes having a pint than going to a night club.

Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?

Life was simple and the credit goes to my parents. They decided to bring us up in a certain way and kept us away from public eye. I am doing the same with my children.

I sometimes can't be bothered, dare I say, to spend a copious amount of time on my hair and my face before I go out into the public eye.

I don't have a publicist.

I'm not one that cares for publicity.

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. They're more pure. They're more simple. They're not neurotic. Well, there are some neurotic dogs.

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

I feel so pure in heart.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.

The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.

Before the cell phone and the Internet, you felt a more pure sense of liberty than we do today. Whenever you left the house, and the phone, in your kitchen attached to the wall, nobody was able to get a hold of you.