The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you’re dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings – and you need...

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

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

My feeling was that I simply didn’t have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

Nothing is impossible, you simply just have to believe it.

Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will...

You are – all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one’s put into it.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.

We don’t want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

I don’t possess a lot of self-confidence. I’m an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There’s a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of...

I wasn’t really naked. I simply didn’t have any clothes on.

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn’t simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination....

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Simply put, I’m glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there’s a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas – because they simply don’t know about its...

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn’t take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do – provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way,...

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate...

I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals.

I don’t see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

People with disabilities are simply part of diverse communities in the U.S.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don’t want collaborations regardless of their merit.

Sharing with just your friends doesn’t protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that...

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we...

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you’re always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.

I don’t think I’m curvaceous. It’s simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief.’

I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young...

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after...

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am constantly congratulated by strangers for simply existing.