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Quotes About Simplicity

I threw my TV out years ago.
~ Beppe Grillo
I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.
~ Shawn Amos
Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.
~ Natasha Lyonne
Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.
~ Elle Varner
I like eclecticism. To feel comfortable and not overdressed. I still like thrift store shopping, and I don't like to put a lot of effort into what I'm going to wear.
~ Lauren Ambrose
It is in the nature of Smaland to be thrifty.
~ Ingvar Kamprad
I get the same lurching thrill now when I'm about to sit down to an egg mayonnaise sandwich and a packet of plain crisps as I used to get when I fancied someone.
~ Viv Albertine
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
~ Ferdinand Porsche
If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.
~ Kimi Raikkonen
If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I love things that are easy to throw on, that I don't have to think about. Like skinny jeans and a T-shirt is easy for me.
~ Kourtney Kardashian
In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.
~ Drew Pomeranz
Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.
~ Steven Brust
I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
~ Owen Hart
I'm pretty boring with pizza toppings. I only ever eat margherita. If it's ever anything else then I'll just go 'mmm', pretend to eat it, then throw it in the bin.
~ Conor Maynard
I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
~ Brian Greene
I live in jeans and T-shirts, and usually just throw stuff on over that. I love Brunello Cucielli, J.Crew for basics, NYDJ and DL1961 for jeans, and Magaschoni for sweaters.
~ Kelly Rutherford
I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.
~ Spike Jonze
Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.
~ Michael Madsen
I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.
~ George H. W. Bush
Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you're like, 'What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?'
~ Jim James
Throwing things out is one of the most difficult and important things you ever have to do.
~ Thelma Schoonmaker
Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
~ Caitlin Moran