Simplessity Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother. — Siobhan Fallon Hogan

Forget the buildings and the monuments. Let the softness of dark come in, all those light-years between stars and planets. Cities were the works of men but the earth before and after those cities, outside and beneath and around them, was the dream of a sleeping leviathan--it was god sleeping there and dreaming, the same god that was time and transfiguration. From whatever dreamed the dream at the source, atom or energy, flowed all the miracles of evolution--tiger, tiger burning bright, the massive whales in the deep, luminescent specters in their mystery. The pearls that were their eyes, their tongues that were wet leaves, their bodies that were the bodies of the fantastic.

Spectacular bestiaries of heaven, the limbs and tails of the gentle and the fearsome, silent or raging at will . . . they could never be known in every detail and they never should be. — Lydia Millet

This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something - reality - that may not be understood at all. — Michael Crichton

Do not trouble me with such weak excuses — Gail Carriger

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong. — Mark Twain

Wampa cap securely on his little head. I pat mine. It's still there. All is well. — Krista Ritchie

would announce that NeXT was bringing the world a breakthrough. But the customers didn't follow and NeXT wasn't close to making a profit, which companies must do to thrive and grow. At a board meeting in spring 1991, company officials delivered more bad news about poor results. Investor Ross Perot interrupted the presentation with a blunt assessment: "So what you're telling me is the cockpit's on fire and the plane's in a tailspin. — Karen Blumenthal

Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt. — Betty Smith

I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance. — Tom Lehman

I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong.. — Ray Romano

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. — Keanu Reeves

You can't kill anything that's always moving and changing — Ally Condie

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers? — Djuna Barnes

You can talk to me, too."
"I do!"
"But you say so little."
"Women talk a great deal to one another. All this gossip and such. I am not a woman."
"What do you do when you have to command your men?" She inquired, exasperated. "Grunt? — Catherine Asaro