Quotes About Plain

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

And graven with diamonds in letters plainThere is written her fair neck round about:Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in you humdrum routine, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary person, of the plain, toilworn, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and griefs.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

very terrifying strip of double netherrack that ran from our speck to the edge of the main plain.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. They shield themselves with an aura of unavailableness (for which after a time they begin to take credit) largely as a defense tactic. In my particular case, I could not hide behind the curtain of voluntary goodness. I was being crushed by two unrelenting forces: the uneasy suspicion that I might not be a normal female and my newly awakening sexual appetite.

Mandred leaned against an outcrop of rock to catch his breath. He'd come halfway, and he cast his eyes back to the edge of the forest. The darkness of the woods had barely allowed the green faerylight to penetrate, but there on the mountainside, everything was as plain to see as on a cloudless night under a full moon.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

My life is simple and rough.

Anything simple always interests me.

I just try and keep everything simple.

I'm a very simple person.

Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh.

She had been a comet; and her blazing descent through dark skies had been plain for all to see.

I'm a plain man, I am; no nonsense about me.' And no manners, grace, or generosity, either.

He arrived tentatively at his own idea, that melancholy arose from natural, sometimes beneficent forces. Talking about it in plain human terms was his first step toward claiming his own ground as a person who, through no fault of his own, needed help.

The most consistent thing about Graham Wessit was his attitude of open experiment. Can you even imagine , she asked herself, plain, quiet, intellectual little you spending a lifetime on the arm of such a havoc-producing man?

Samantha and I screamed. So did Ashley—and she hardly ever screams. We couldn't help it. Having the scary-looking scarecrow turn up like that was just plain freaky! The three of us ran in different directions. We all ended up in the backyard, out of breath.

A pint of plain is your only man.

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

Though [Jesus'] words were profound, they were plain. His words were weighty, yet they shone with a luster and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies.