Simply Quotes

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

When we awaken, we cannot account for the time spent. We simply don't remember. About the only evidence we have of experiences while we were asleep is when we happen to remember a dream.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.