Simplistically Living Quotes & Sayings

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded. — Sixto Rodriguez

All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained. — Isabel Allende

Why the clay?" "That is also what I am," Vashet said. "Only that which bends can teach. — Patrick Rothfuss

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated. — Simon De Pury

All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people — S.E. Sever

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient ... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature — Henry Seidel Canby

newer here? There were no dense brambles, — Ruth Rendell

And the peanut butter-eaters on Earth were preparing to conquer the shazzbutter-eaters on the planet in the book by Kilgore Trout. By this time, the Earthlings hadn't just demolished West Virginia and Southeast Asia. They had demolished everything. So they were ready to go pioneering again.

They studied the shazzbutter-eaters by means of electronic snooping, and determined that they were too numerous and proud and resourceful ever to allow themselves to be pioneered.

So the Earthlings infiltrated the ad agency which had the shazzbutter account, and they buggered the statistics in the ads. They made the average for everything so high that everybody on the planet felt inferior to the majority in very respect.

Then the Earthling armored space ships came and discovered the planet. Only token resistance was offered here and there, because the natives felt so below average. And then the pioneering began. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be? — Yoshida Shoin

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows. — George Bernard Shaw

constructions, and I — Elizabeth Strout

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. — A.J.P. Taylor