Quotes About Simplicity

I use Apple because they're easy to understand and everybody gets it.

As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.

I don't like applying too much makeup.

I'm appreciating the little bitty things that make me happy.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Once a thing is nothing more than what it is, it's too useful to serve the cause of luxury.

Mavi de, bütün çe?itleriyle, göklerden al?nm??t?r, beyazla iyi ba?da??r. Bunlar?n ikisi de birer safl?k de?il midir?

la plus inquiète, la plus rapide, la plus jalouse, la plus ardente, la plus violente, la plus simple, la plus é

thought of what Mama liked to say: to find this kind of love, you have to enter deep country.

to find this kind of love, you have to enter deep country.

Their long, meandering tales of humble normal lives were like the proverbial glimpse of a snug, lamp-lit parlour to a traveller belated after nightfall.

[Skipping] takes me back to less complicated times, without leaving the present!

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear?

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction

If a man makes the world his castle, he does not seek to furnish it.

There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something more than a man. He isn't. If he were, then he wouldn't be any good at all. There is no great mystery about Spartacus.