Plain Quotes

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Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one… — Maud Adams
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em. — Gail Carson Levine
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means… — Thomas Huxley
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit,… — Mary Ann Glendon
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. — Bob Dylan
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain).… — Joseph Sobran
Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' -… — James Chanos
When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe. — Kathie Lee Gifford
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice. — Pam Grier
I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect… — Felicity Jones
What part of no don't you understand. To put it plain and simple, I'm not into one night stands. — Lorrie Morgan
I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes. — Thomas Paine
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers… — Sappho
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. — Christine Lavin
I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the… — James Lee
Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain… — Katherine Dunn
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were… — Kathryn Lasky
Have you got a Beemer, an Audi, a Saab or a Volvo that replaced a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover or Nissan? Many Brits have. Your first… — Peter York
People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple… — Jayson Williams
The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow… — H. L. Mencken

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