Quotes About Simplicity

My everyday look is casual, and I try not to wear makeup if I don't have to. I'll cover a zit with a little concealer, but I don't wear foundation on a daily basis. I maybe fill in my eyebrows.

I'm actually a ridiculously basic person when it comes to make-up, and I pretty much wear the same things I did when I started my company 22 years ago, apart from a few differently textured foundations.

I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years.

Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.

I don't use a hairdryer when it's not necessary; I try to look after my fragile hair.

I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous.

No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.

It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.

I think French women tend to keep it simple. I'd say try the less-is-more approach, which is not always easy to get right.

I used to shower every day, but I've been trying to shower less frequently for my hair health.

There's nothing like a fresh scone.

I think it doesn't really matter what you do for a career, that breakfast routine - get the kids ready, off to school and out the house - if you can have something in the fridge that you know and trust, and that you know your kids enjoy it then it makes your life so much easier.

Birthdays are just weird! I like to have something simple like a dinner with friends and family if possible.

You know a date's gone really well when she's happy with nothing fancier than a Big Mac and fries!

Form follows function.

I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.

She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation.

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

She had suddenly a clear view of him as a man extraordinarily clear-sighted in the affairs of others, in great affairs, but in his own so simple as to be almost a baby. And gentle! And extraordinarily unselfish. He didn't betray one thought of self-interest… not one.

Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.

It is The Way," he said softly. "Take only what ye need. When ye take the deer, do not take the best. Take the smaller and the slower and then the deer will grow stronger and always give you meat. Pa-koh, the panther, knows and so must ye." And

Advice to Readers Good friends who come to read this book, Strip yourselves first of affectation; Do not assume a pained, shocked look, For it contains no foul infection, Yet teaches you no great perfection, But lessons in the mirthful art, The only subject for my heart. When I see grief consume and rot You, mirth's my theme and tears are not, For laughter is man's proper lot.

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.