Quotes About Simplicity

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

The older I get, the more I realize the truth is the simpler the food, the more exceptional it can be.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

It's so much easier to be truthful. Maybe I'm just too lazy to lie.

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

All I look for is good quality stuff. Whatever I read, if I like it, then I want to do it. It's as simple as that. I don't have a master plan of, "I should do this genre, and then this."

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.