Plain Quotes

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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others. — Bertolt Brecht
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,… — W. Somerset Maugham
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. — Annie Dillard
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity… — Edgar Allan Poe
Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do… — Lord Chesterfield
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise… — Grover Cleveland
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his… — Allen Tate
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience… — Kenneth Tynan
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass. — John Fowles
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few… — Larry McMurtry
It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded. — Lewis Thomas
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than… — Murray Kempton
You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between… — Connie Nielsen
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was… — Peter S. Beagle
I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people… — Linus Torvalds
I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of… — Tinie Tempah
The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House… — Verne Troyer
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the… — Jhonen Vasquez
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain… — Walter Lord

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