H. L. Mencken Quotes

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

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• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Investment

• My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Simple

• On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Present

• I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Home
  • She
  • Beautiful

• My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Know
  • Simple
  • Obsession

• There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Simple
  • Nothing
  • Egg

• Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Great
  • May
  • Simple

• I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Question
  • Simple
  • Thought

• Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Simple

• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Done
  • Simple
  • Best

• I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Different
  • Simple
  • Baby

• I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Love
  • Simple
  • Poetry

• The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Simple
  • Myself

• The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Simple
  • Meeting
  • Devoid

• I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Myself

• The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

  

  Ben Falcone
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Death

• Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It’s an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Black

• I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

  

  Liz Murray
  • World
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Running
  • Wish
  • Christian

• The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Simple