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Quotes About Simplicity

A man knows he's in love when he's totally happy just watching his girlfriend do even the simplest things—peeling an apple, combing her hair, fluffing up a bed pillow, laughing.
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, I cook for two boys, and they don't care what it looks like on the plate, and neither do I.
~ Judy Gold
Unhappiness isn't just the result of genetics or past trauma or career trouble. I think that some of our unhappiness is simply due to the burden of all our things.
~ Fumio Sasaki
I always eat mac and cheese. That's what I'm known for, just very simple food: sandwiches, French fries, very unhealthy, but yeah that's what I eat.
~ Bethany Mota
My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.
~ Matt Bomer
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
~ Nancy Kress
When I'm relaxed, jeans and a shirt are my uniform.
~ Monica Bellucci
I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
My daily uniform is always an easy T-shirt or tank top, a pair of jeans and a leather or denim jacket, and combat boots.
~ Daisy Lowe
When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.
~ Jean Paul Gaultier
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
~ William Falconer
I don't have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts.
~ John Cena
We don't need flashy cars, impressive titles, uniforms, or other status symbols. We rely on our strength and our will!
~ Ingvar Kamprad
Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?
~ Victoria Moran
I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.
~ Lesley Manville
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
~ Marjory Stoneman Douglas
And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
~ Charlie Hunter
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!
~ William Morris Hunt
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
~ Lytton Strachey
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.
~ Andrew Vachss
I still dream about doing something simple, very simple and universal.
~ Peter Sís