Quotes About Clarity

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward.

I'm not very good at dating. I'm very decisive. If I like someone, then they're my boyfriend. It's pretty straightforward.

I'm saying to you that one of the great characteristics of the great American, the American people, is our historic ability to be straightforward, plainspoken, say what we mean, and mean what we say.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.

The best things - when I really feel that I'm communicating, and when I really feel that people are getting it - are simple, straightforward recipes. I think simple is the hardest to achieve because you don't have all those elements to hide behind.

My judicial philosophy is straightforward.

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

Lots of people tell me I am straightforward.

I like trying to keep as honest and straightforward of a point of view in our kitchen as possible.

I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell them my thoughts. Language is never a problem.

Fatherhood made everything more straightforward. I was relieved that no longer did I have to agonise over what meaning I had in my life.

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Hark ye of little pleasure! See your way clearly as your destiny reveals its truth! Seek not completion lest your touch be forever dismissed!

On a bike your consciousness is small. The harder you work, the smaller it gets. Every thought that arises is immediately and utterly true, every unexpected event is something you'd known all along but had only forgotten for a moment. A pounding riff from a song, a bit of long division that starts over and over, a magnified anger at someone, is enough to fill your thoughts.

without the pot affecting his judgment.

because being with you makes perfect sense

Words, too, have genuine substance — mass and weight and specific gravity.

So Michele and Stefi's friends don't receive regular pocket monty, which is a very Anglo-Saxon, puritan thing, which its obsession with system and clarity, benefits and punishments, its perverse desire to have little children learn to manage given amounts of money over given periods of time.

I like plans. They create a comforting illusion of sanity and order.