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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde

"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau

The benefits of volunteering for those in need have been well documented. Julia Roberts claims, 'It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It's the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times'.

Chris Ridley

But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.

Joseph Conrad

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Julius Charles Hare

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or ''broken heart,'' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Charlotte P. Gillman

I look atthe triumphs my family has celebrated over these past years and marvel atthat fact that many of the highest points have been in the simplest of momentsand would have held less meaning if the days had not been touched by cancer.

Suzanne Lindley

I have a 'Play the melody' philosophy. It means don't over-arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody -- and do it the simplest way possible.

Jackie Gleason

Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed.

Antoine Lavoisier

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks

In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.

G. Wilhelm Leibniz

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

John Erskine

The strategy, in its simplest form, is to get what I call a disproportionate share of new people moving into the market.

Fred Green

It's one of those things you never get tired of. It's flying in its purest and simplest form. And it's very stress relieving.

Greg Peterson

I don't know that there was any concerted effort to drop saint. Typically the way this goes is that the simplest name sticks.

Chris Waythomas

The reason we filed in the lawsuit in the simplest terms possible is to prevent the authors from promoting themselves and profiting from illegal conduct.

Michael Rains

Sometimes the greatest ideas are the simplest ideas, ... It just made sense. If we want to become a better goal-scoring team, we should have a better idea of who's scoring goals in practice and maybe it would make the guys more aware that, 'Hey, we can actually become a better goal-scoring team.'

David Quinn

We want to change one kids' life at a time. That's the simplest way of stating our mission.

Greg Moser

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

Paul Theroux

The simplest (solution) would be (for PAISD trustees) to follow acceptable board actions and procedures.

Deetta Culbertson

[Every laboratory experiment to] produce some of the simplest chemicals of life has completely failed, ... The information carried in DNA cannot be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry.

William Harris

Very often, it's the case that the heirs of significant collectors are not particularly interested in art, and sometimes the simplest thing to do is to have a collection sold off.

Richard Gray

You can build a reputation. You can get to know people you're playing with, in more than the simplest way.

Doug Perry

To them, the simplest thing means a lot. These kids are just floored when they get things we don't even think twice about.

Kailei Hogan

The simplest thing to say is that this person is not a lawyer and appears to have no legal training.

Jason Schultz

We have everything from the simplest to complicated. We have nothing a good high school or college lab wouldn't have.

George Wolfe

They like him for the simplest of reasons: One of them said to me, 'Because he's funny,' .

Howard Sounes

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

Jane Fonda

Even if you set aside the need for valid code, it is ridiculously easy to find non-government sites that flunk even the simplest and most canonical requirements of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, like using alt texts for images.

Joe Clark

Contradicts the simplest essential conditions and methods of investigation.

Mahdi Dakhlallah

Among the really difficult problems of the world, [the Arab-Israeli conflict is] one of the simplest and most manageable.

Walter Lippmann

Coast to coast, consumers are embracing Pay By Touch. Hands down, paying by touch is the simplest way to pay and is making consumers' lives easier everyday.

John Rogers

With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.

Jim Loehr

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Jerry Gillies

This is the simplest way to confine a campaign to the message of the two candidates. The two campaigns are totally responsible for the message that's out there, and they control that message. That's the way it should be.

Christine Iverson

It's the simplest way to communicate, ... There's just so much info that needs to be communicated to dispatch.

David Kirkpatrick

Even though my father never made millions of dollars, he was rich in so many ways. He seemed so content with his life ... fulfilled in every way ... that he exuded this every day. Even at the simplest of gatherings, his joy and genuine happiness made me want to be around him.

James Doyle

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Guy De Maupassant

I guess the simplest way to make sure that you can heat your home the most effectively is to make sure that the least amount of air is getting through cracks. Make sure that everything is caulked. If windows are leaking you can put cellophane over them.

Patrick Rush

The simplest thing of all - those eye shields that help you sleep on long flights.

Jack Higgins

The simplest assessment of the aftermath of Katrina is that the worst possible event has occurred at the worst possible moment.

Mike Fitzpatrick

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

Sam Levenson

Ideas generally come in a very complicated form, and you've got to strip them down to make them usable. Boil a gag down to its simplest form, and it is readily discernible to anybody who sees it.

Carl Barks

We never did it ourselves. I'd think about it but I wouldn't do it. But it's the simplest thing to save somebody's life.

Jacqueline Roberts

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Patricia Sun

Budget Billing is the easiest, simplest way for customers to better handle their utility bills. They're not going to save money, but it does give them a level bill.

Leigh Morris

The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

Thomas Gray

The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must, we think, prove the most correct. It originated, doubtless, in that desire, which every great poet must especially feel, of revealing to his age forms of nobler beauty and heroism than dwell in the minds of those around him.

Jones Very

A multivitamin will provide you with the amount you need. You don't have to worry about whether you are eating enough of the right foods. That's the simplest way to get it.

Gail Rampersaud

We picked the simplest organism about which we know the most.

Michael Ellison

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleanora Duse

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

Edward Steichen