Easy Quotes

"I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be"

Anna Louise Strong, Journalist

"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy"

Rebecca West, Author

"I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know"

Craig Bruce

"Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it"

Madame de Stael, Writer

"For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me"

John Cleese, Actor

"It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages"

James Madison, President

"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"It's easy to get a loan unless you need it"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Its easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Only entropy comes easy"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life"

David Geffen, Businessman

"Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere"

Agnes Repplier, Writer

"I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

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