(215 quotes found)
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”
Jean Kerr
“Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
“It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself”
Peter Ustinov
“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms, she was always Lolita.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“I have not come here with a little wolf bark, but have come to talk plain with you.”
Black Kettle
“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!”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
Charlotte Bronte
“If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.”
Walter Mossberg
“When I was youngerit was plain to meI must make something of myself.Older nowI walk back streetsadmiring the housesof the very poor. . . .”
William Carlos Williams
“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
