Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I can be extremely content on my most simple days when I just have like, a great chat with my friend and… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“If asceticism is to he something different today than this pre-modern denial of autonomy and self-determination, it must he conceived of differently… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“He walked on down the dark, empty street. Suddenly an idea came to him. Immediately, with his whole being, he knew it… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done. It doesn’t mean… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games,… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
'English Vinglish' is simple; that's why people like it. The film has simplicity and sensitivity. There is no melodrama. Some things have… — Sridevi Copy Share Image
“I know what you’re trying to do, and…no. You can’t make something that’s beautiful but complicated into something simple and ugly out… — Leisa Rayven Copy Share Image
We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“This life is short, but it contains everything. There is an inherent beauty in simplicity. Choose your path wisely; often the simple… — Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus Copy Share Image
Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
“Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a true religious person a… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach… — Jim Croce Copy Share Image
When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“one of the conditions or problems of having knowledge, that a seemingly simple question only has a simple answer if one's knowledge… — Jordan Baker Copy Share Image
My brain is very simple. Like when you break everything down. I see things in a simple way. And that simplicity for… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“Flow is not just a fun way to feel more positive and get more done; it’s also a practical tool for working… — Laurie E. Smith Copy Share Image
“This is the beautiful secret of minimalism: It may seem like it’s about stuff, but once you’ve cut through the clutter and… — Erica Layne Copy Share Image
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
