Quotes About Plain

rising up starkly over the snowy plain, and that the plebs were flocking out

You know, boy, people criticise Stalin, but you've got to say this for him: he lived like a worker. Not like Beria – he thought he was a prince. But Comrade Stalin's room was a plain man's room. You've got to say that for Stalin. He was always one of us.

good things have banal ingredients.

I believe that I have such a vanilla life.

This is who Shakespeare was meant for: not The New York Times! Not intellectuals. Just plain folks. You play Shakespeare's music right for a real house and that shit goes up all by itself.

I like boring things.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

They trapped the Lion on Shamu's plain; They weighted his limbs with an iron chain; They cried aloud in the trumpet-blast, They cried, "The lion is caged at last!" Woe to the Cities of river and plain If ever the Lion stalks again! —Old Ballad.

Against all the propaganda for fancy eating and plain cooking, I hope to persuade you to cook fancy and just plain eat. It is better for your soul.

In Reacher's experience new Suburbans were driven by uptight assholes. But old models were plain, utilitarian vehicles often driven by plain, utilitarian people.

A person can't regret honesty any more than other unavoidables—a plain face or a poor history.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

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

Simple is good.

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.

Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all.

a great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind A shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

hope you will allow me to speak as plainly as I can." This was the difference, he thought, between the South and the North. A Southern woman would never ask permission.

If rank and money come with love and virtue, also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.

Even the swift needle charmed him, the little brooch which rose and fell with her quiet breath, the plain work she did, and the tidy way she gathered her bits of thread into a tiny bag.

He was just plain John, the next-door neighbor.