Simple Answers

"The answer is simple:  pay close attention to the five L’s and decide to correct the ones that are lacking.”

—Richard A. Harris, Simple/Truths (2010)

"The answer is simple:  The Japanese make better cars.”

—Michel Robert, Strategy Pure and Simple Two (1998)

"The simple answer is that we do not know.”

—CMJ New Music Report (Sept. 4, 1958)

"The answer is simple:  feed the poor, clothe the naked, and heal the sick.”

—King (1983)

"The answer is:  simple machines.”

—John Farndon, Experimenting with Physics (2008)

"The answer is simple enough:  it cannot.”

—Lee Rainwater, Social Problems and Public Policy (1974)

"The answer is simple:  Be yourself!”

—Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Appreciate Your Life (2001)

"The answer is simple: the problem is one which we have created by making this false abstraction and setting it alongside the facts from which we have abstracted it as if it were another fact."
—Charles M. Sherover, The Human Experience of Time (2001)

"The simple answer is that some individuals have better judgment than others.”

—Frank Manchel, Film Study (1990)

"My answer is simple.  Because we need culture, and we have anarchy.”

—Samuel Lipman, Culture and Anarchy (1994)

"The answer is simple: a lot — probably far more than most women are comfortable with!”

—Andrew S. Trees, Decoding Love (1999)

"The simple answer is that it is just impossible.”

—House of Commons Health Committee (2007)

"The answer is simple:  more money will be needed to achieve the results that might have been reached.”

—Drayton Bird, Commonsense Direct & Digital Marketing (2007)

"The answer is simple:  change is happening constantly, with each tick of the clock, with each blink of an eye, with each breeze off the Bay.”

—Marcia Z. Nelson, The God of Second Chances (2001)

"The answer is simple:  It is widespread but not universal.”

—Robert Arking, The Biology of Aging (2006)

"The answer is simple:  learn to relax.”

—Mark Hyman, Ultrametabolism (2008)

"The answer is simple:  almost anything you want as long as you do the same thing to both sides.”

—Fred Grayson, CliffsTestPrep Nursing School Entrance Exam (2004)

"The answer is simple:  it makes you tremble, shake, and quake.”

—Bradford Keeney, The Bushman Way of Tracking God (2010)

"The answer is simple.  It doesn’t.”

—Iona Archibald Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (2001)

"The answer is simple: He will undoubtedly get it.”

—Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (Dec. 1956)