Plain Old Quotes

32 Plain Old quotes by 29 unique authors

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked… — Laurie Colwin
Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there,… — James Alexander Thom
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful… — Neal Stephenson
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of… — Jerry Garcia
You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge… — John Shelton Reed
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. — Jack Prelutsky
You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to… — Bear Bryant
A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse… — Terry Pratchett
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something… — Thomas Sowell
If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do… — Julia Cameron
We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are… — Barry Goldwater
The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. — Phil Gramm
Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be… — Leon Uris
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well… — Don Herold
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. — Twyla Tharp
Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist… — Jessica Valenti
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide… — Hunter S. Thompson
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… — Atul Gawande
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field… — Jeffrey R. Holland
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.… — Kurt Vonnegut
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old… — Elizabeth Kostova
The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear. — David Sedaris
Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.” “Dorian who?” I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain… — Becca Fitzpatrick
I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind… — Kami Garcia
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. — Robert Breault

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