A Quote by Chic Murray

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

Chic Murray

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Chic Murray
Scottish - Comedian
November 6, 1919 - January 29, 1985

My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.

Julian Bream

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

Miguel de Cervantes

I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father!

Ryan Murphy

I lead a simple lifestyle but that doesn't mean I am a foolish simpleton!

Saswata Chatterjee

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

Terry Pratchett

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Virginia Woolf

It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

Criss Jami

There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.

Kate Bornstein

I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very, very much,' explained that when a man and a woman hug tightly, the man plants a seed in the woman. The seed grows into a baby. Then she sent me to the pantry to get placemats. As a direct result of this conversation, I wouldn't hug my father for two months.

Sloane Crosley

I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.

Greta Gerwig

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not.

Nick Flynn

I'm a simple man with a simple mind. I hold a simple set of beliefs that I live by. Number one, I believe in America. I believe it exists. My gut tells me I live there. I feel that it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I strongly believe it has 50 states.