Billy Graham Quotes

I don't like making things too complicated when writing songs. I want to write in a very easy language that many people will understand.

I like people who tell you what they think straight away instead of going around in circles.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Simple is the language of truth.

I don't feel like I have to use big words or theories to get my point across. People are like, "Whoa. That's crazy" and make it into this crazy thing.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Simple is the speech of truth.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

All the great things are simple.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.

I always go for simplicity.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Simple is the only way I can write.

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.