Quotes About Plain

While we waited for the eggs Peterkin asked, trying to sound casual, "This your hound-dog? What's his name?" Bill Monroe looked at us and the dog as mean as a man can look. "He's ourn all right. Bein' a plain hound-dog he hain't got a name.

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

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

He was a tall, burly, youngish man in plain clothes whose features some freak of heredity had assembled into a perpetual expression of muted alarm, so that to be in his company was like consorting with a man dogged by assassins.

A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.

God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain.

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

But the earth is full of magic, Amor said to the Ancient One, after the feast on the plain was over. Most men know nothing of it and so comes misery. The first law of the earth's magic is this one. If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought there will be no room in it for an ugly one.

On the Funeral Plain we learned to despise the men of the communities.

I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

green painted walls look clean and bright. Matron was a stout woman in a plain, severely cut dark dress, her light brown hair taken back from her face and covered with a small starched white cap. 'Angela O'Rourke? Please sit down,' came the clipped, well-modulated voice. Angela sat, folding her hands in her lap and trying not to look nervous and edgy.

Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.

If you use plain text to create synthetic data to drive system tests, then it is a simple matter to add, update, or modify the test data without having to create any special tools to do so. Similarly, plain text output from regression tests can be trivially analyzed (with diff, for instance) or subjected to more thorough scrutiny with Perl, Python, or some other scripting tool.

GURGE  (GURGE)   n.s.[gurges, Latin.]Whirlpool; gulf. Marching from Eden he shall findThe plain, wherein a black bituminous gurgeBoils out from under ground.Milton'sParadise Lost,b. xii.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

Simplicity beats complexity

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather aremetaphors.

I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.