Plain Language Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got…
— Lawrence Bossidy
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Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.
— Ken Wilber
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an…
— William Osler
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I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to…
— Charles Darwin
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People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,"…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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People of a television culture need “plain language†both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances…
— Neil Postman
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In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in…
— Grace Paley
Who Wrote These Plain Language Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 9 Plain Language Quotes as follows: