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Quotes About Unadorned

The girl was neat as a pin, if plain as a plate.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!
~ Laura Osnes
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
~ Ben Affleck
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.
~ Jane Smiley
My life is simple and rough.
~ Munshi Premchand
Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age
~ August Sander
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
~ Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I hope that, even when I'm simply just Kwon Ji-yong, I can be someone who still shines even without all these 'flashy' costumes on.
~ G-Dragon
You can't find jewelry on me.
~ Lexi Alexander
furnished, but by no means decorated
~ Henry James
I haven't the knack of being colorful.
~ Fred MacMurray
I like to keep it bare minimum, be it make-up or accessories.
~ Mithila Palkar
That's probably what attracted me to archaeology. No makeup, no fluffing or mousseing. Every day is casual Friday. Less than casual.
~ Kathy Reichs
In my world, I like everything stripped down, something that's really truthful.
~ John Waite
I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.
~ Jessie J
Faraday's home was Spartan. Little decoration. Unimpressive furniture. Rowan's room had space for only a bed and a small dresser. Citra, at least, had a window, but the view was of a brick wall.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'd like to act in a film without special effects.
~ Richard C. Armitage
I have never gotten my nails done.
~ Yuan Yuan Tan
I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.
~ Lydia Millet
Real rustics are not conscious of being picturesque, they do not construct bird sanctuaries, they are uninterested in any bird or animal that does not affect them directly ... The fact is that those who really have to deal with nature have no cause to be in love with it.
~ Christopher Hitchens
She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Kramer's unadorned prose is evocative of the best Jewish-American writing: of Singer, Malamud, Bellow, Ozick, Roth, Kunitz, Paley. This is the speech of the newly arrived, the immigrant, the oppositionist, the pariah; it is underclass, or working class, or even middle-class.
~ Larry Kramer
Kate as she was at home without varnish or furbelows.
~ Grace Livingston Hill