Quotes About Simple Things

#1. I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

Rokia Traore

#2. Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying. A jaunt to the local mall or a day in front of the TV watching QVC can be just enough for all the loved ones on your list.

Jenna Morasca

#3. You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a hen. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple.

Douglas Adams

#4. We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.

Priscilla Chan

#5. Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed. The

Stephen King

#7. Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!

Michelle Gardner

#8. I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#9. I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

Jason Reitman

#10. Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

Andrea Hirata

#11. There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

Miyamoto Musashi

#12. all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.

Amos Oz

#13. He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

John Lanchester

#14. Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

James Wong Howe

#15. Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

Ines De La Fressange

#16. I remember when we kissed. I still feel it on my lips. The time you danced with me with no music playing. I remember the simple things. I remember till I cry. But the one thing I wish I'd forget, the memory I wanna forget is goodbye.

Miley Cyrus

#17. When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.

Melody Beattie

#18. In the quest for fortune and fame ... don't forget about the simple things.

India.Arie

#19. Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.

Joan Marques

#20. My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.

Olga Kurylenko

#21. I hope these simple things are what I forever love about life, for then I will be happy no matter where I find myself.

R. YS Perez

#22. Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...

Fay Weldon

#23. Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Bob Marley

#24. I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

Alton Brown

#25. Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen ...

Rohinton Mistry

#27. Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Jack Kornfield

#28. I wish the choice I have to make today was so simple. I realise I have the choice to believe in two terrible things. Either Damian is a murderer or Beckett arrested an innocent man.
Just thinking about it is making my head hurt.
Well then forget your head, listen to your heart.

Richard Castle

#29. He painted a rosy picture of prewar Germany in contrast to its current "disgrace and defeat."8 He made complicated things simple. "Political agitation must be primitive," he said.9

Peter Ross Range

#30. I don't have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I'm going to Hawaii and I'm asking myself "Do I pack it? It could be cold." I'm inventing scenarios where I could wear it.

Shaun White

#31. I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.

Jo Beverley

#32. Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Jean Cocteau

#33. I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways ... It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Gordon Willis

#34. The things we do today - sowing seeds, or sharing simple truths of Christ - people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him.

George Matheson

#35. Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say what he felt and glow with the light of eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#36. When it comes to skin care, I like to keep things simple. I'm not the type of person who runs out to have facials.

Chyler Leigh

#37. A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

Donald O. Hebb

#38. Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the
simple and beautiful things around him.

Billy Graham

#39. The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values.

Doris Christopher

#40. When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

Dylan Moran

#41. I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#42. One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

Ian Frazier

#43. You can't just lump things into two categories. Things aren't that simple.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#44. In 2012, I was diagnosed with melanoma - skin cancer - and had to get surgery on my left foot. I was out for four weeks - no dancing, no walking, nothing! It was horrible, but it taught me patience and to never take for granted the simple things we have.

Witney Carson

#45. And hearing him, Stephen found herself thinking that all men had something simple about them; something that took pleasure in the things that were blameless, that longed, as it were, to contact Nature.

Radclyffe Hall

#46. It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#47. Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

David Halberstam

#48. I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.

Arizona Muse

#49. Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#50. Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.

Tad Williams

#51. Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
Things least to be believed are most preferred.
All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
Are readily believed if once put down in print

John Clare

#52. Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.

C. W. Ceram

#53. I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I was beginning to get interested in doing my own thing as well. I'm not sure what inspired this, but I became very interested in decorating things.

Paul Smith

#54. Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

Neil Gaiman

#55. Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

Noam Chomsky

#56. It's easy to be foolish ... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do the human things, like fall in love with somebody when you know that there's no point and when you know, too, that it's just going to make you unhappy.

Alexander McCall Smith

#57. I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.

Tammy Blanchard

#58. Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.

Leo Burnett

#59. The simple things in life make me very happy.

Samantha Fox

#60. Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

Stella McCartney

#61. She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.

Tess Thompson

#62. There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.

Giordano Bruno

#63. Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

Rhian J. Martin

#64. When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

Maya Tiwari

#65. I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

Julio Iglesias

#66. People might think you can turn creativity on and off,
but it's not like that. It just kind of comes out. A mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it's gonna happen, but when it does ... it's like magic.
It's just that simple and it's just that hard.

Gwen Stefani

#67. Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

Max Barry

#68. Hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even though it's painful and you're afraid.

Caroline Knapp

#69. Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

Giorgio Morandi

#70. The best things in life are simple, abundant, and free.

Debasish Mridha

#71. Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.

Herman Melville

#72. The most complicated and scary things in life are really about something a lot more simple.

Lara Zielin

#73. These are our precious things. Simple things. A currency of sentiments.

Fennel Hudson

#74. It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that all physical and nonphysical things have another side.

Frederick Lenz

#75. I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.

Isobelle Carmody

#76. We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Charlie Munger

#77. [ ... ] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#78. Hurrah for Peace, Frenchy, and the simple life! Where a man can live comfortably and runs no danger of being killed for things he doesn't understand - there is his real homeland!

Vicente Blasco Ibanez

#79. One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.

Bob Hoskins

#80. Every week I'll be spending money on flights, accommodation, stringing and even things as simple as taxis, meals out and, of course, paying the other members of my team. I'm still very careful, though, with what I'm spending.

Andy Murray

#81. Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

Keanu Reeves

#82. Simplicity is the strength of the film. It is an emotion-packed film with simple things knitted together beautifully.

Lara Dutta

#83. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.

Cora Carmack

#84. Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.

Paulo Coelho

#85. They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

Calvin Coolidge

#86. When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple.

Jordana Brewster

#87. Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.

Sigurd F. Olson

#88. Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone ... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things ... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

Christopher Reeve

#89. I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.

Steve Coogan

#90. I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.

Annabelle Selldorf

#91. Things that appear to be complicated - and that in fact are complicated - are very simple where motives are concerned. Motive is the root of desire, so to speak. The important thing is to seek out the root. Dig beneath the complicated surface of reality

Haruki Murakami

#92. Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.

Taylor Swift

#93. Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme ... they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

Philip Levine

#94. Simple things are often the most challenging.

Jodi Meadows

#95. Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Mark Twain

#96. Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to get things done.

Steven Magee

#97. In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.

Nell Blaine

#98. A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

Charles Kettering

#99. LOVE is complex,we (people) try to avoid it as we(people) are habitual of doing simple things.

Jitendra Bhardwaj

#100. In certain cases I don't want to sell tracks individually; I want to only sell the whole album. With simple things like that I just don't get any response [from iTunes]. I don't want to kill iTunes - I just want to offer my own retail experience in my own tiny corner of the Internet.

DJ Shadow