Simply Quotes

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.