Quotes About Simplicity

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

I hate picking out outfits for events. That's why I always wear the same thing when I go out - OK, not exactly the same, but always something easy. If it isn't a big fashion event, it'll be jeans and a nice top.

I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!

We like to take picnics and sandwiches, driving through the green lanes. My wife loves the house, the dogs, and the animals we have around us, the deer and the fox that comes and pokes his head through the hedge.

Nothing's better than a picnic.

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

Women who have understood fashion and style for so long have always known it's not about having more pieces. It's about having the right pieces and having the pieces that are of a great quality and look like you know what you're doing. You don't have to have a million things on.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!

Matt Leinart's L.A. duplex looks more like a Chuck E. Cheese safe house than a millionaire jock's crash pad. There's the requisite leather couch and flat-screen television, but the rest of the ground floor is bare except for a pile of Nick Jr. DVDs, a high chair, and a SpongeBob SquarePants director's chair.

I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.