Easy Quotes

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

~ Dirk Benedict

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

~ Gil Scott-Heron

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

~ Jose Mourinho

Making the Australian team is the hardest part, and going to the Olympics is the easy part. You're there representing your country - you're representing every single person in it, strangers you don't know - and there's a lot of positive energy, but you have to know to channel it the right way.

~ Ken Wallace

Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating my birthday got thrown into the December holiday mix as an afterthought.

~ Chelsea Manning

We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.

~ Peter Landesman

I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.

~ Cameron Crowe

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

~ Jacques Audiard

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

~ Laurence Sterne

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

~ Vince Lombardi

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

~ Donald Norman

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

~ Leo Fender

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

~ Samuel Johnson

The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That's why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

~ Jason Reitman

It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it.

~ Joy Mangano

CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.

~ Jeffrey Zeldman

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

~ Helen Rowland

There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it's the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it's just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.

~ Louie Gohmert

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

~ Bob Hoskins

Trust is not very easy for me at all. I want to be a trusting person, but I've been bruised so many times - not to sound woe-is-me about my life.

~ Mariah Carey

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

~ Narendra Modi

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

~ Marianne Williamson

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

~ Keira Knightley

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

~ Ani Difranco

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

~ Eminem

My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.

~ Will Ferrell

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

~ Ciaran Hinds

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

~ Daniel Craig

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

~ Sabrina Carpenter

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

~ Tim Curry

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

~ Edgar Degas

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

~ Jane Austen

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

~ Charles Kennedy

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

~ St. Vincent

It's really easy to do sad you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

~ Jill Soloway

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

~ Paul Feig