Plain Quotes

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We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part… — Frank Delaney
The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear. — David Sedaris
They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain… — Cormac McCarthy
That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You… — Bill Condon
I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life.… — Sarah Dessen
The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things. — Alistair Begg
Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like Iâ€™m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.â€ â€œDorian who?â€ I sighed. â€œJust think up something else. Plain… — Becca Fitzpatrick
You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple. — James Dashner
I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the… — P.G. Wodehouse
I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Thereâ€™s a human out there who is killing off Dark-Hunters, and someone needs to stop them.â€ â€“ Andy â€œWell, thatâ€™s just plain rude.â€ â€“ Sundown — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in… — Alan Watts
By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I… — Steve Erickson
The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious… — Louisa May Alcott
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees… — Michael Pollan
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive… — William Hazlitt
She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her… — Haruki Murakami
People of a television culture need â€œplain languageâ€ both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances… — Neil Postman

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