Plain Quotes

Plain Quote of the day

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

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!

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

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

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

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

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is “Don’t be stupid.” I’m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.

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

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Young people are growing in plain sight, there is no place for them to hide, no cocoon. It’s hard

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

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," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

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.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.

Normality is the new eccentric.