Quotes About Plain

When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.

I am a woman of simple tastes.

all around the walls there are bookcases. They're filled with books. Books and books and books, right out in plain view, no locks, no boxes. No wonder we can't come in here. It's an oasis of the forbidden.

I thought you were the docile one, he murmured. Yes, my lord, she said meekly. Compared to my sister, my lord. And you're the smart one as well? Even though you were going to put horse dung on an infect wound? Yes, my lord. She straightened her shoulders. And the plain one. His eyes were like a sly weapon, all soft, lingering caresses while he stood just out of reach. I think you're a fraud, Lady Alys. You've yet to convince me of any of those three things.

Behind the flattery, the edge of mockery was plain to anyone who must, as a matter of survival, learn to detect it. page no. 15

good lady" was anything but fair. She was middle-aged, overweight and plain in the extreme. But that was no reason why she should be subjected to this sort of terror, Halt thought grimly. She held back, whimpering with fear at the sight of the black figure before her.

It was not the last time a well-meaning American Progressive would express the view that if only we made our good intentions plain, the opposition of our foes would melt away.

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

I'm not a beat around the bush kind of guy.

Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own.

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

A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such.

They were earthy people, devoid of refinement.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.

I dread that it may be only a longing for annihilation. No person who has seen his own face plain can want to live longer.

Is it just possible, he sighed, that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators? Possible that plain men with the humble trait of minding their own business will rank higher in the heavenly hierarchy than all the plumed souls who have shoved their way in among the masses and insisted on saving them?

Is it just possible," he sighed, "that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators? Possible that plain men with the humble trait of minding their own business will rank higher in the heavenly hierarchy than all the plumed souls who have shoved their way in among the masses and insisted on saving them?

Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators? Possible that plain men with the humble trait of minding their own business will rank higher in the heavenly hierarchy than all the plumed souls who have shoved their way in among the masses and insisted on savings them?

If today was a flavor it would taste like beige...

Because somewhere in that plain of childhood time must have been planted the seeds of the restlessness.

The girl was neat as a pin, if plain as a plate.

And her palace,' Simeon said dreamily. 'You can hardly imagine, Isidore. It's made entirely of pink marble, and it looks over the banks of a huge rain plain. Sometimes the plain fills with white flowers, thousands and thousands of them. If there's rain, the plain forms a great blue mirror to the sky.

I don't think there's much scenery to be seen on the ocean ... It's just plain water all the way over.