#simple

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#art #beautiful #concentrated #effort #enough

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ↗

— Eleonora Duse

#blade #blue #fields #fills #grass

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#both #cooking #everything #full #i

My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#effort #elegant #host #i #i love

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power. ↗

— John Fogerty

#doing #eddy #good #guitar #had

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Mary Garden

#door #else #really #room #shut

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. ↗

— Cary Grant

#bed #best #between #formula #get

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beings #definite #distinctively #existence #individuals

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#arrangement #divisible #henry #henry james #i

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#border #both #both sides #circumstances #comments