Quotes About Simplicity

There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, 'Slow it down and enjoy every moment.'

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

We didn't have a script, but with Jean-Luc we didn't really need one. It was like an understanding between us. He would say, 'Anna, a little bit quicker or a little bit slower.' That was all. We didn't do a lot of retakes. With some other actors I know he would do a lot of retakes, but not with me.

Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

The simplest of simplest things makes me happy. I love small gestures and nature in life.

I guess I love the small things in life.

I love small things. I love them.

I enjoy the small things.

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

Small things make me happy, and I laugh out loud on the silliest of jokes!

I don't think one gets to choose the kind of comedy he/she does. I may not talk about Rahul Gandhi's take on an ordinance, but I will talk about things as simple as a 'chappal' or a 'sherwani.' My comedy is about small things, and that is how it connects.

Sometimes I need people around me to remind me, to keep enjoying the small things.

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.

I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.

There's not a lot to do in a small town, but i grew up on a cattle farm... some people would say there's nothing to do on a cattle farm, but I'd say there's everything to do.

I grew up in a really small town.

I'm just a small town girl who enjoys making people happy.

Being born in a small town, you have got many advantages. You get to experience so many things in life.

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.