Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

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• A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Bad
  • Simple
  • Beginning

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Arts

• I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Me
  • Simple
  • Clothes

• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Good
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Up
  • Why
  • Home

• I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Simple
  • Road
  • Military

• 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

• The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Work
  • Live
  • Simple

• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Way
  • Sport
  • Maximum

• The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Simple
  • Land
  • Israel

• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • School
  • Feeling

• 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

• I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • New
  • Creation

• That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Simple
  • Thought
  • Sound

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

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Simple

• Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Faith
  • Simple
  • Commitment

• Being a cook doesn't necessarily mean you are a competitor.

  

  Joe Bastianich

• When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Why
  • Kind
  • Forget

• We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

  

  Dennis Ross
  • Failure

• We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.

  

  T.I.
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Responsibility

• Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Simple