Simple Quotes - page 3

For years I asked God to do something about my noisy neighbor with the barking dog, Joe Pesci straightened that cocksucker out with one visit. It's amazing what you can accomplish with a simple baseball bat. (George Carlin)
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck. View quote
Joseph Heller
I live a pretty simple life. View quote
Tom Selleck
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. View quote
Robert Browning
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. View quote
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. (John Searle)
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness. View quote
Gustav Klimt
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? View quote
Albert Camus
Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with. View quote
W. C. Fields
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. View quote
Henri Bergson
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. (Richard Dawkins)
Only great minds can afford a simple style. View quote
Stendhal
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. View quote
Robert Collier
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. View quote
Jim Horning