Quotes About Simplicity

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

My whole thing is simple, well-balanced meals. I have to say, though, that I really like dessert. I try not to eat dessert every day, but I'll have dessert every now and then.

Cats don't need you that much. They like to come and get stroked now and then, and they need you to feed them. But other than that, they're not very demanding, are they? I quite like that.

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I travel so much that life has become a matter of honing things down to the barest essentials. Nowadays, I almost never go anywhere with anything more than hand luggage - and a laptop.

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

It's an oversimplication to say that more monks and nuns are the answer to the Joel Osteen-ification of Christianity... but it wouldn't hurt.

It drives people nuts that I take them to McDonald's all the time.

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

We didn't have nine brands of cereal at home. We'd line up to fill our bowls from a giant vat of oatmeal.

In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

I try to keep my sentences quite pared back. What I really want to do is observe people's relationships and interactions. I don't want language to get in the way of that. It's quite a difficult process to achieve that, for the language to feel clear.

For me, it's always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

It might seem ludicrously simple, but the obvious answer to what to wear on your bike is whatever that helps you enjoy cycling.

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.

I am good friends with Vicky Kaushal. In fact, he is from my hometown and our homes are just a kilometre apart. Our families get together during occasions and we know each other very well. He is a very sweet and simple guy.

There was a way, of course, to deal with the papers. If the ears of the reporters were geared to capture accurately the mediocre remarks of mediocre men, then one had to look for simple salient statements, so poetically bare, but so irreducible, that they would stick in the reporter's mind like a thorn.