Quotes of: Simple Keyword

Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.

Stays Crunchy in Milk

Poet To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in weeds

Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems

I’m jealous – not of their money to spend, but jealous that, for them, going home is a simple matter of turning down the correct lane.

Sub Rosa

Because God took one look at Adam and said, 'Wow. This guy's going to need all the help he can get.' And here we are.

Simple Secrets

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

Secrets at Sea

Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was…terrifying." Muse

Ties That Bind

When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?

Thoughts From The Inside

His teachings, said his disciple Musaeus, had one simple theme: 'Everything comes into being from the One and is resolved into the One again.

Orpheus: The Song of Life

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

Proust

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

Philosophy Made Simple

She heard melody and harmony and counterpoint; he heard something calling him from far, far away.

Philosophy Made Simple

simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.

The Piano Teacher

It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).

The Valley of Unknowing

It’s fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.

What Are You Afraid Of?

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.

War and Peace

What simple and ordinary lives we live, underneath the shadows of projection screen artists

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

A Wrinkle in Time

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Cary Grant

I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.

David Blaine