Oversimplify Sentences Quotes & Sayings

Humans are intelligent and resourceful. If we've been around a million or more years, why are we so disinclined to believe that we could have built cities 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 or even more years ago? — Christina Engela

The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art. — Philip Gerard

I'd said thank you. And apologized. It was more than I thought I'd ever do.
"You're welcome," he said, his expression lost in the shadows. "I'll see what I can do about the no lying ... thing." And inclining his head, he vanished. — Kim Harrison

For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part. — William Shakespeare

Reach up to the feet of God, looking for a sign ... it was right here all the time ... — David Lee Roth

I'm tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy. — Becca Ritchie & Kristia Ritchie

When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now ... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.' — Kate Williams

You work for whatever you get in life. — Karl Malone

On the other hand, it seemed to be working. For Samantha, anyway. And in comparison, my own relationship with Bernard was sorely lacking. Not only in sex, but in the simple fact that I still wasn't sure I was ever going to see him again. I guess the best thing about living with a guy is that you know you're going to see him again. I mean, he has to come home at some point, right? — Candace Bushnell

Most of us ... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much. — Campbell Scott

Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the way you function in society, your beliefs and the way you live, that is where you will find a real musician, a real artist. — David Finckel

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers. — John Sandford

There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages. — Ann Nocenti

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby. — Bill Mollison