#implicit

Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words. ↗

— Scott Nicholson

#epitaph #realization #simplicity #tombstone #death

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#emotion #emptiness #love #simplicity #death

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#century #elaborated #going #i #implicit

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#blue #blue jeans #clothes #expression #had

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity. ↗

— Desmond Llewelyn

#brilliant #gadgets #simplicity #their

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#ceremony #connection #jesus #opposite #place

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#simplicity #understand #understanding

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#analysis #attempt #century #implicit #interest

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. ↗

— George Sand

#difficult #difficult thing #effort #experience #genius

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#glories #noun #possibility #same #simplicity