Quotes About Simplicity

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

Plan ahead! Prepare dishes ahead of time if you can. Keep it simple. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy your guests.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.