Shirley MacLaine Quotes

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

The only footwear I need is an inexpensive pair of blue sneakers. They have soft fabric tops and soft rubber-like soles. I get them one size too large so I can wiggle my toes. I feel as free as though I were barefoot! And I can usually get 1,500 miles to a pair. I wear a pair of navy blue socks.There's a reason why I chose navy blue for my wearing apparel-it's a very practical color, doesn't show dirt, and the color blue does represent peace and spirituality.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I'm actually a barefoot girl.

I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.

Life's too short to wear high heels.

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

I really love fashion, but I feel like the older I get, the more I am drawn to the basic things in my daily life because everything else is so goofy and crazy.

I'm not a girl who's into home comforts and luxury.

I wear cheap shoes. I don't even wear socks.

We don't have to eat the best food to survive: a basic diet will get us through. We wear clothes to stay warm and hide our modesty, they don't need to be the latest designer collection.

I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need.

I like white shoes mostly. Sometimes I like simple, sometimes I like strange, but I don't look for anything special.

I don't live to eat but eat to live.

Simplicity is key. Some people like really high-tech kitchens, where you have warming drawers and ice makers and storage for a million different things. Honestly, for me, I need an oven, a stove top, a fridge and a sink.

God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system, destroy liberty ... I do not mean to say that a dollar a day is enough to support a workingman ... not enough to support a man and five children if he insists on smoking and drinking beer. But the man who cannot live on bread and water is not fit to live! A family may live on good bread and water in the morning, water and bread at midday, and good bread and water at night!

True affluence is to not need anything.

With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.

I've learned all I need to know to live under a bed.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.