In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
Twyla Tharp

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario Puzo

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
Jasper Johns

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Rod Serling

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Arthur Miller

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
Arthur Miller

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Deborah Tannen

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
James Cash Penney

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
Bruce Babbitt

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
John Le Carre

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.
Eileen Caddy

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
Phillips Brooks

So, I simply switched over to wine because it was not carbonated.
Peter Steele

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
Edward R. Murrow

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
Gloria Estefan

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Vaclav Havel