Plain Language Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• 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
• 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
• Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. — Ken Wilber
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Plain Language Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1 Plain Language Quote by Sue Monk Kidd
• 1 Plain Language Quote by Neil Postman
• 1 Plain Language Quote by Grace Paley
• 1 Plain Language Quote by Lawrence Bossidy
• 1 Plain Language Quote by Ken Wilber
• 1 Plain Language Quote by William Osler
• 1 Plain Language Quote by Charles Darwin