Quotes having the keyword Plain
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
by Uma Thurman (Actor, American , born in 1970) keywords: adolescence, convinced, everyone, first, fourteen, hideous, know, life, looks, mine, painful, plain, spent, weird, were , years Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
by John Tillotson (Theologian, British , born in 1630) keywords: beaten, brings, commonly, end, his, journey, lose, man, men, often, plain, road, sincerity, sooner, than, themselves, traveling , which I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.
by Linus Torvalds (Businessman, Finnish , born in 1969) keywords: call, felt, how, important, issue, judging, just, linux, many, more, naming, never, nothing, obviously, plain, tell , wrong 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.
by Michelle Trachtenberg (Actor, American , born in 1985) keywords: different, fans, heard, just, keep, life, nice, open, plain, press, private, rude, stories, suggestions , your This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?
by Spencer Tracy (Actor, American , born in 1900) keywords: barn, cents, door, look, mine, mug, pay, plain, should , why It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
by Harry S. Truman (President, American , born in 1884) keywords: confuse, convince, em, old, plain, political, time, trick, won , work Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
by Barbara Tuchman (Historian, American , born in 1912) keywords: bureaucratic, capricious, demands, discipline, easy, enough, form, habit, idiotic, obey, orders, plain , reasonable Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
by Edward Burnett Tylor (Scientist, English , born in 1832) keywords: across, downward, earth, every, forming, gradually, how, imagine, just, knows, lies, miles, outlet, plain, slopes, snow, such, ten, towards, valley, valleys , which We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
by Eamon de Valera (Statesman, Irish , born in 1882) keywords: coming, farmers, hope, national, opportunity, out, plain, programme, small, take, together, will , working I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
by Jhonen Vasquez (Cartoonist, American , born in 1974) keywords: any, ass, cool, dislike, except, group, just, kick, kind, life, light, might, particular, particularly, person, plain, reading, stuff, up , work Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
by Horace Walpole (Author, English , born in 1717) keywords: art, beautiful, exchanging, harmony, laborious, plain, poetry, prose, sense , way Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.
by Robert Walpole (Statesman, British , born in 1676) keywords: against, been, charge, defense, exhibited, had, impartial, make, permitted, plain, their, them, trial , wherever I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
by Ida B. Wells (Activist, American , born in 1862) keywords: coming, common-sense, concerned, dealt, feeling, had, helpful, homes, instinctive, into, little, our, plain, problems, school, should, simple, something, their, things, training, way, weekly, which , wrote Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
by William Wilberforce (Politician, English , born in 1759) keywords: certainly, forward, go, heaven, man, once, plain, right, road, straight, tell, then , turn Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.
by April Winchell (Actor, American , born in 1962) keywords: aspect, cancer, demoralizing, every, expensive, experience, far, fun, humiliating, just, plain, thus, today , weathered It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
by John Sergeant Wise (Author, American , born in 1846) keywords: classes, enabled, plain, private, reason, system, them, true, tutors, upper, very , wealth Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
by William Wordsworth (Poet, English , born in 1770) keywords: adore, avarice, expense, high, idolatry, living, more, plain, these , thinking 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!
by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Poet, Russian , born in 1933) keywords: diffidence, give, just, little, mystery, plain, silence, simple, slim , which
