Quotes About Plain

Mrs. Hale, still leaning against the door, had that sinking feeling of the mother whose child is about to speak a piece. Lewis often wandered along and got things mixed up in a story. She hoped he would tell this straight and plain, and not say unnecessary things that would just make things harder for Minnie Foster.

These are the gifts that last. Small, as easy as breathing in and out, as plain as bread, they sink beneath what we think we remember, what we think we know, but they remain.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

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.

We are conditioned by the national parks to link beauty and environmental value, a prejudice that makes as much sense as thinking attractive people form better friendships than plain people.

Don't you have something plain and wholesome, like scotch or bourbon?

primitive kitchens and rudimentary laundry

And for a reason he still did not understand, he began to cry. Love plain, simple, and so fast it shattered him.

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.

Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day.

Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, Kindness as large and plain as a prairie wind.

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

The Delta region of Mississippi is an expansive alluvial plain, shaped like the leaf of a pecan tree hanging lazily over the rest of the state. Stretching some 220 miles from Vicksburg to Memphis, it is bounded on the west by the Mississippi River, and extends eastward for an average of 65 miles, terminating in hill country, with its poorer soil and different ways of life, and the Yazoo River, which eventually joins the Mississippi at Vicksburg. For blues fans, this is the Delta...

I'm just a guy. There's nothing special about me.

I am just a plain, common man.

he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window -- not woven through the fabric of life like gold threads through a brocade.

The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.

I have never gotten my nails done.