Simple Words Quotes

• The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

  Graham Swift

  Art, Clever, Real

  "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.

  Kay Hooper

  Simple, Love Is, Easy

  Kay Hooper (2016). “What Dreams May Come”, p.138, Loveswept

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• Home. It's such a simple word, one I never knew would come to mean as much to me as it has. It once was my dad's house, then my uncle's farm. Mostly it's meant wherever Charlie and I were together. Now, though, it's you. It's your letters, your words. They're the place I go to with my fears, where I find comfort, where I feel safe.

  Kristina McMorris

  Uncles, Dad, Home

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• Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Kissing, Simple, Two

  "Wonderful, Wonderful Times". Book by Elfriede Jelinek, 1990.

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• I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection

  Frederic Chopin

  Gratitude, Heart, Simple

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.

  Andre Maurois

  Simple, Jargon, Philosopher

  "The Art of Writing". Book by Andre Maurois, 1960.

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• O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting

  Jan Struther

  Simple

  Jan Struther, “London Lovers”

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• Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Strong, Simple, Shade

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.234

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• The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.

  Hugo Black

  Mean, Simple, Law

  Concurring opinion, Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147, 1959.

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• I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Simple, Earth

  Jorge Luis Borges (2005). “Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness”, Penguin Classics

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• I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Simple, Games

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Simple, Community, World

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• ...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other -three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Marriage, Home, Sacrifice

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• Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

  T.S. Mathews

  Communication, Simple, Difficult

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• It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

  Stan Brakhage

  Simple, People, Visionaries

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• I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Simple, Feelings

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

  Moby

  Simple, Noses, Ugh

  Journal entry at moby.com, January 21, 2003.

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• Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.

  Phil Vischer

  Simple, College, Yale

  "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.

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• Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Art, Simple

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• Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.

  Ben Zimmer

  Simple, Style, Phrases

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Simple, Innovation, Curiosity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• That principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts Become Things!

  Mike Dooley

  Simple, Law Of Attraction, Principles

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• I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.

  Dan Mathews

  Simple, Two, Long

  "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were 'all image' and my current ones are relatively abstract. The sense of the line changed with the theme, somehow my ear (or brain or heart/mind) fell in love with a short line and very very simple words.

  Gregory Orr

  Heart, Simple, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

  Joseph Devlin

  Ignorance, Simple, Purpose

  Joseph Devlin (2014). “How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version”, p.4, Full Moon Publications

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