Simple Quotes

• I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Lost
  • Relationship
  • Passion

• I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wish

• I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

  

  Kirstjen Nielsen
  • Law
  • Simple
  • Immigration

• Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Simple

• If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • May
  • Crazy

• A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Organization
  • Complex
  • Organisms

• A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Good
  • Simple

• To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

  

  Dave Winfield
  • People
  • Simple
  • Baseball

• See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • War
  • Water
  • Christian

• Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Simple
  • Couple

• On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

  

  Edward Albert
  • Relationship
  • Understanding
  • Survival

• I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.

  

  David Nevins
  • Game
  • Simple

• You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Live
  • Desert
  • Rebel

• Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Economy

• When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Dog

• Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

  

  Brian Walker
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Earth

• The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

  

  George C. Williams
  • Simple
  • Doubt

• Things are simple when you're going to die.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Death
  • Dying
  • Dies

• In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Simple

• As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Effort

• As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Change
  • Reading

• I'm fascinated by simple joy.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Simple
  • Joy
  • Fascinated

• By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact. It is a statement of faith.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Simple

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