Quotes About Simplicity

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

If I was hungry for two rotis, I ate only one.

C'est le destin de la ruse que de paraître trop simple à des savants trop naïfs

It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog.

All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.

It doesn't matter, because I have found my match. It's Nick, laid-back and calm, smart and fun and uncomplicated. Untortured, happy. Nice. Big penis.

Just one olive, though

The Muehlers were good people with no imagination, with personalities so tied to the land, even their skin seemed to take on the ridges and furrows of Kansas.

First, Simplest Explanation. The simplest and most obvious explanation of any phenomenon is usually the correct one.

Mr. Kermit has a flip phone that's probably as old as his car. There are smart phones and dumb phones. His is a rock.

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.

She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with happiness against his poor surroundings, she saw it was enough for him. More than enough, as the smile that kept curling up on his face told her.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.

How twisted we humans are, and yet they say a God made us; but I find it hard to conceive of any God who is not as simple as a perfect equation, as clear as air.

Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

Too many books by too many authors can be confusing, like too many shirts and suits.

In un mondo folle, ubbidire sembra sempre la soluzione più semplice.

They don't want Communism.' 'They want enough rice,' I said. 'They don't want to be shot at. They want one day to be much the same as another. They don't want our white skins around telling them what they want.

Too many books by too many authors can be confusing

At one with the One—it didn't mean a thing beside a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.