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Quotes About Simplicity

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
~ Joseph Addison
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
~ Meryl Streep
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
~ Gerald Brenan
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
~ Barack Obama
Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!
~ Francois Nars
Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.
~ Renee Zellweger
I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.
~ Lorde
I often find that I like the vibe of not having technology around me.
~ Julia Holter
I love the small-town vibe.
~ Carmella
It seems like some of my favorite songs have almost like a nursery rhyme vibe to them.
~ Ruston Kelly
Armaan has a simple approach and understands what a composer wants. I tell him, 'Give the song your own vibe but I will still come and fight with you and change it.'
~ Amaal Mallik
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.
~ Pippa Middleton
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
~ E. T. Bell
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
~ Nancy Lublin
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
We are all victims of the marketing that says cooking is hard and takes too long, but that's simply not true. Scrambled eggs take five minutes to make.
~ Laurie David
Sometimes I won't put a lot of make up on; I won't put foundation on. I'll just pop a bit of blusher on. I'm not obsessed with trying to look like a Victoria's Secret model - it's real life.
~ Rebecca Ferguson
I think the T-Shirt bra is really special for Victoria's Secret because it's that kind of simple bra that you wear under the t-shirt, so it doesn't have any lace or anything like that. So it's very smooth; it's very comfortable; it doesn't have a lot of padding in it.
~ Behati Prinsloo
I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.
~ Jane Lynch
Twitter is really - I got very addicted to it just because it's so simple, and it's like a video game for comedy writers to just do a one-liner about something.
~ Paula Pell
Personally, I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box.
~ Satoru Iwata
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
~ Vince Vaughn
I find most video games too complicated to play.
~ Bill Cowher
I'm easy to please. I just need a bed and video games, and I'm set.
~ Matt Leinart