Plain Quotes

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

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.

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

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.

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.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

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

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

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

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

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

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.