#simple

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#cut #cutting #dictatorships #down #expedient

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#frame #game #good #keep #manager

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#farewell #going #simpler

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #derived #derives #man #manifestation

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#any #art #arts #been #culture

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#aware #certainly #clever #confidence #creative

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#hard #make #simple #very #worked

I like songs that are simple. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#like #simple #songs

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#i #important #itself #like #made

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill