Simplicity Quote by Jonathan Stone Download Open image ““rounded, satisfying weight of the simplicity of the idea. He looks at them.”” — Jonathan Stone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Simplicity
“Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Take the time to observe the simple and ponder upon the seemingly insignificant. You’ll find a wealth of depth and beauty.” — Melanie Charlene Copy Share Image
“They are solid, real. I am an object, useful but hollow. The absence of thought fills me up.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.” — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
“He glances up again, and recognizes Gregory’s design. It is a system of holy simplicity: big papers on the bottom, small ones on top.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.” — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
“He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.” — Reginald Hill Copy Share Image
“To help with the loading would be foolish vanity on his part, counterproductive. Yes, he is a strong and healthy seventy-two, possessed of a… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“Their possessions marked the progress of their life not in a pure volume of accumulation—which in itself was somewhat embarrassing, foolish-looking, potentially imprisoning (one… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“taught him how to test the trash can food first—how to hold it in his mouth, what to taste for, to know it was… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“Technology is the opposite of mystery. Technology is the end of mystery. Puts the lie to mystery. Makes everything explicit.” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“Lives that have had their turn now take their turn observing other” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“led to the crawlspace under the cabin, and staying low crabbed down the stairs into the low dirt-floored crawlspace, making his way, crouched, over… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“(a deprivation that, in truth, was not so much a daily trial of living as a suffocating flatness of life),” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“her purse. Evan Nussbaum, Det. 114th Precinct, City of New York. It would be one quick phone call, one quick urgently whispered sentence—the truck… — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“They signified what had mattered to you, and what mattered still.” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
“Lives that have had their turn now take their turn observing other lives.” — Jonathan Stone Copy Share Image
This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
“The past and the future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple. And the simplicity is the sensation of it being just her… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
David Shrigley is somewhere between stand-up comedy and cave paintings. He does these brilliant esoteric, simple drawings - you might even say bad drawings.… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image