Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Topics

Simplify

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

John Locke

DreamsReflectionMindIdeasWithout

Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

GoodPeopleImpossibleBad People

Being older now, grown, I'm like, 'What do we really do that's fun?' I'm kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today.

MF Doom

TodayFunMeThinkYouKind

The merger mania which goes on and on and on is the sign of the disappearance of competition. As we deregulate, the mergers increase, which means there's less and less competition. At the national level, at the regional level, but also at the international level.

John Ralston Saul

CompetitionLevelSignMergerMeans

Hospice has brought such a light in my life. It is something I will be involved with until I need hospice myself.

Torrey DeVitto

LifeLightMyselfMy LifeWillNeed

Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.

Mike Newell

RomanticWriteFreshBecause

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Michelle Shocked

DanceSchoolFoolsGrandmotherNever

The world stage is very difficult. It's not easy to be on the world stage.

Mohammed Morsi

WorldEasyDifficultStageVery

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about... the world I live in.

Julia Glass

LifeLiveCrazyWorldColorfulSee

'Portlandia' is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything.

Jonathan Krisel

BusinessNot KnowingKnowingAnything

In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.

Dennis Kucinich

PeopleMeCreatePersonKnowBeen

I am not a fan of politics.

Chris Kyle

PoliticsI AmFanAm

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