Simple Quotes

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

~ Cate Blanchett

I don't really have a beauty routine. I always use coconut oil, and I always wear mascara. That's kind of it! I'm pretty simple.

~ Zoe Kravitz

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

~ André Maurois

Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.

~ Fred Hampton

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

~ John Adams

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

~ Doris Lessing

Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.

~ Kate Klise

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

~ Charles Bukowski

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

~ Walter Murch

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

~ Maria Shriver

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

~ Eugene Kennedy

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

Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

~ Stephen Graham Jones

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

~ Mark Skousen

The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.

~ Robert Fogel

Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?

~ Ben Shapiro

When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

~ Jack Dorsey

I think that for all of the dangers of technology spreading, I think it is more dangerous in some ways that it doesn't. My simple reason for that is we've got 7 billion people on the planet, and we have these very serious problems, and I think we don't know who's going to have the answers to the problems that are coming around the bend.

~ Daniel Suarez

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

~ Billy Graham

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

~ Michelle Obama

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

~ Alice Walker

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

~ Alice Paul

Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.

~ Tom Graves

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

~ Bob Riley

A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress,' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move, because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested.

~ Stacy Keibler

Everyone in the dating business wants to know what women want - it's the billion-dollar question. But it's simple: put one in charge, and you find out.

~ Whitney Wolfe

I don't actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with 'Dawson's Creek' growing up. And 'Freaks and Geeks.' And '8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.'

~ Anya Taylor-Joy

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

~ Karl Pilkington

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

~ Michael Bay

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

~ Joe Moore

Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.

~ Mike Gallagher

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

~ Mildred S. Dresselhaus

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

~ George Eliot

I live a fairly simple life, and that didn't change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn't buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.

~ Michael Arrington

In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

~ Adam Savage

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

~ John Mcafee

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

~ Aubrey De Grey