Plain Quotes

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.