"All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity"

-- Martin E. Marty

#Simple Quotes #People Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.”
“Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.”

Source : "Computers & Technology" by Joshua Quittner, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 1995.
“Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.”
“I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.”
“Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.”
“In the first season (of 'Californication'), when we had the threesome with the nipple clamps, I was, like, 'I don't get this, I don't know how you're gonna do it.' And then, all of a sudden, there's a crane with a camera hanging over our heads, and you're, like, 'Okayyyyyyy. But how are you gonna sell this? How are you gonna make it work?' And they ended up shooting it brilliantly, cutting it together, and it just all ended up working without me having to compromise my own personal morals.”
“The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.142, Courier Corporation
“Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.”

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