Simply Quotes

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Heath Ledger's performance in 'The Dark Knight' quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous.

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.