I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much. - J R R Tolkien Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that. - Douglas Adams Dogbert to Dilbert "My invention can detect human stupidity. It has a very simple interface. All I do is point it at people." "Then what does it do?" "Why would it need to do anything else? - Scott Adams Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives. - Cecelia Ahern It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at t...

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. - Paulo Coelho I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things. - Paulo Coelho It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them - Paulo Coelho True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do - Paulo Coelho I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am. - Marwa Ayad It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult. - Richard Brautigan Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.. - E A Bucchianeri There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the mo...

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of crating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. - John Green Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back. - Ian Mcewan No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. - J P Morgan Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men h...

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word. - Cecelia Ahern It is my own language, limited as it is. I will have to learn to work with it. There was a kind of poetry I was seeking in my prose, word to be laid against word in just a certain way, a kind of word color, a march of words and sentences, the color to be squeezed out of simple words, simple sentence construction. - Sherwood Anderson But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find the perfect combination, and I don't imagine I shall have more luck than they. - Lissa Bryan Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, gui...

Perfect health, long life and eternal youth are not the random genetic blessings of a chaotic or capricious universe, but natural birthrights that can be accessed through the mindful acceptance of simple truths, activated by the committed practice of proven activities, and sustained by advancement along a single known path. This is that path. --The Ageless Adept - Walt F J Goodridge A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths. - Faraaz Kazi

Africa is people may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa. - Chinua Achebe The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. - Paulo Coelho the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things - Paulo Coelho I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things. - Paulo Coelho simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them. - Paulo Coelho It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them - Paulo Coelho True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do - Paulo Coelho I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand m...

Africa is people may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa. - Chinua Achebe Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself. - Paulo Coelho The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. - Paulo Coelho the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things - Paulo Coelho I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things. - Paulo Coelho simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them. - Paulo Coelho It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them - Paulo Coelho True wisdom consists in respecting the simple t...

...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. - Ilona Andrews I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. - Oscar Wilde Simple pleasures are best. - Alan Bradley The opera was stylish and the movie a thriller, But, I had to buy a new dress and the popcorn was stale, After the show, all I had left was my empty pocket. For me, I have decided simple pleasures will do, A walk in the park, a cup of coffee and a good book too, My friends, you may find these to be a sound investment too. www.nancybbrewer.com - Nancy B Brewer Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise. - A S Byatt Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Jones...

Get out of your own way... stop the paralysis by analysis... decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving! - Steve Maraboli And I can't let you out of here until I know what your plans are. (Kat) To stop the annihilation of mankind and the earth. It's a simple plan, really, but an important one. Can I go now? (Sin) - Sherrilyn Kenyon It goes on, he thought. The internecine hate. Perhaps the seeds are there, in that. They will eat one another at last, and leave the rest of us here and there in the world, still alive. Still enough of us once more to build and hope and make a few simple plans. - Philip K Dick I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy. - Arthur Conan Doyle

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level. - Edward Albert I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. - Rita Rudner The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. - Atom Egoyan Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. - Jackie Kennedy He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation. - Jared Leto I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers. - Carrieanne Moss

The conservative social critique always boils down to the same simple message: liberalism - meaning everything from racy TV to deconstructionists in the Yale French Department - is an affectation of the loathsome rich, as bizarre as their taste for Corgi dogs and extra-virgin olive oil. - Thomas Frank I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer. - Emeli Sande We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives. - Simon Sinek

She glanced down at the contents of her plate. Just tell him what it is. Simple. Look at it and say what it is. "Sloppy Joe," she managed. "Hmm," he said, sounding doubtful. "May he rest in peace. - Kelly Creagh I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look. - Allison Williams

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. - L M Montgomery The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much. - Kevin Brooks Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness! - Roald Dahl ...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on ...

Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall. - Amelia Atwater Rhodes The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys? - John Shors

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. - Lee Child You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong? - Jodi Picoult You've no idea what you're getting involved with." Cole closed his eyes. He seemed to be reaching inside to calm himself. Livia took a step out of the pew. "Cole, I can't turn back now. My life leads to his. It's as simple as that." "Two months." Cole looked doubtful. "Four hundred forty-six smiles, plus two months of talking twice a day, five time...

My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running. - Ann Aguirre 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 There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. - William Shakespeare I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I'm joining the circus. Although I'm happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands. - Anne Tyler You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that. - Eric Cantor Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to...

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain. - Lester Bangs To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Nothing is simple if your mind is a fetch-and-carry wanderer from sliced perilous outer world to secret safe inner world; if when night comes your thought creeps out like a furred animal concealed in the dark, to find, seize, and kill its food and drag it back to the secret house in the secret world, only to discover that the secret world has disappeared or has so enlarged that it's a public nightmare. - Janet Frame The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. - Alice Munro

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. - Leo Burnett Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. - Woody Guthrie Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. - Adolf Hitler So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Walter Isaacson That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. - Steve Jobs Educators take something simple and mak...

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated. - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let's just keep it simple and say he's a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Keep it simple. - Rick Riordan Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. Keep it simple. - Rick Riordan The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can. - Giada De Laurentiis To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order. - Joe Gold I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels. - Emeril Lagasse Life is like art. You have to work hard to kee...

They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple. - Dolly Parton I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. - Barbra Streisand I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. - Barbra Streisand