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Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

Oscar Wilde

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lois McMaster Bujold

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Quintus Ennius

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Amelia Earhart

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Katharine Hepburn

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.

Real Live Preacher

I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun.

Chris Alexander

My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring.

Scott Turow

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

George Mcgovern

It will dampen any thought of residential [building] in the flood plain. It's just not worth the risk.

Dan O'connor

ADWOFF [is] wonderful, entertaining, informative and just plain fun.

Nora Roberts

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Plain and simple, we need more space.

Dennis Kelly

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

Christina G. Rossetti

We would like to release this information to the developer community, because they invested the money into this, and we certainly do not want future homeowners in Maple Park to be below the flood plain.

Kurt Baumann

He pitched a great game. Plain and simple, we did not make the plays.

Bill Sikes

Java is just plain a better language, ... They took the good parts of C++, left the garbage behind and added neater parts to replace the garbage.

Rob Janes

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

Bernard Malamud

Reality TV makes good economic sense. And, perhaps more important, these shows are just plain entertaining.

Matthew Robinson

It seems like an awful invitation for people to go out surfing, and I consider it just plain foolhardy, but it's pretty much what you consider your life worth.

Diana Henderson

Whether they're able to do under the ethics statute or not, it's a plain conflict of interest.

Janet Howard

It was really extraordinary to think the hormone had been sitting there in plain sight.

Katrina Kelner

I have not come here with a little wolf bark, but have come to talk plain with you.

Black Kettle

It's not the only answer, but it's just plain fun, and it's a motivator. If you enjoy it and your muscles are improving, it motivates you to work hard in other therapy.

Peter Henderson

They just wanted it more than us, plain and simple.

John Danby

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin

In the zone we lost him and he hit them, it's plain and simple.

Harvey Hale

He's going to call the play, and you're going to run it, ... He's just plain to the point. He's not going to complicate things. There's no more adjustments to what the defense is doing. We're going to run what we're going to run.

Andre Johnson

We had a great racecar tonight. It was awful exciting to be that decent. To come from ninth and race the way we did, the racecar was just better, plain, flat and simple.

Donny Schatz

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Oliver Cromwell

To me it's a very tragic thing ... the county totally ignored that it was a flood plain.

Alice Raine

We'll cooperate, but I want to make it plain that we're not going to alter our policy in relation to mandatory detention.

John Howard Payne

Gang graffiti is pretty plain in content. Usually, the average citizen can read the message and understand it, because those messages are intended to be comprehended by all who read them.

Tim Rupel

We stayed close with them, but their long-range shooting hurt us. Morton beat us, plain and simple.

Brett Mackey

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Sir William Osler

I eat a lot of plain almonds and some raisins. I keep them in my pocket.

Stuart Rasch

You know what you're going to be up against, and either you can do it or you can't; plain and simple.

Scott Auderer

Infinity decided to go another way, plain and simple.

Mike Shannon

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

Phil Gramm

When I got my first invitation in the mail, I almost threw it away because I didn't know what it was. It doesn't stand out at all. It's a plain, normal white envelope. Doesn't say Augusta National, no return address. And once I opened it, well, now it's in a frame in my office. My first invitation to the Masters.

Charles Howell

The budget showed that there is division [among conservatives] and it is not plain sailing for him. It is too early to judge whether he has been able to deliver on his promises or not.

Baqer Moin

They want to pay us agricultural value. A developer said it should be worth $25,000 per acre above the flood plain.

Chief Gary Westphal

The guy needs to act like he's been there before. He really needs to chill out, plain and simple.

Todd Sauerbrun

It was always one of the biggest rivalry games of the year. I always bragged to coach Gerber that I didn't think we lost to him when I was there. But we did look it up, and Garden Plain did beat Cheney one time.

Todd Hague

He's just plain old Ronnie. But man, he sure can run.

Joyce Brown

Plain Street was one area where there have been problems and there have been a lot of break-ins.

John Mccaul

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

Spencer Tracy

There are a lot of people who would build there if they'd change the flood zone. There are a lot of houses over there that could be renovated, but the banks are reluctant to lend money because of the flood plain.

Annie Mcgee

Our offense was not good enough tonight. It was plain poor.

Travis Johnson

The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration...The time is come- it is now- when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.

Peter Marshall

The Zimbabwe government's own gross mismanagement of the economy and its corrupt rule has brought on the crisis, ... Plain Talk About Zimbabwe's Economy.

Christopher Dell

A plain speaker without airs or affectations, the chief fostered a spirit of collegiality among the nine of us perhaps unparalleled in the court's history.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

He's the leader of this team - plain and simple.

Jeff Houston

I think this bill is of questionable ethical quality. It's just plain wrong.

Rep. Scott Pelath

It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true, And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe; But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two, Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

Louis Untermeyer

We stunk defensively, plain and simple.

Dean Berardo

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

John Scott

Most of them, ... appear to be just plain thieves.

Alan Paller

The people who are saying ethanol is bad are just plain wrong. But it isn't a huge victory -- you wouldn't go out and rebuild our economy around corn-based ethanol.

Dan Kammen

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Ted Shawn

Plain ceilings are so boring.

Gary Shapiro

This is a very sad day for us. This hunt is not about public safety. This is a trophy hunt, plain and simple. But the bears don't belong to just the hunters. They belong to all of us.

Lynda Smith

If you're a parent and you have an allergic child, you may know all the names of all milk-derived ingredients, but a child may not. So the plain English wording provides simple wording so they can understand it.

Stephanie Childs

We're always sharing the importance of education with them. It's plain - in order to succeed in life, you've got to get an education.

Frank Ford

We don't have time for plain friendships, to go out or have fun. The shroud comes first.

Rebecca Jackson

Monica Lewinsky is not someone who would take or steal anything, and I am certain that this report is just plain incorrect.

Bill Ginsburg

Plain and simple, we need more natural gas in this country.

Josh Young

Plain-clothes police are outside my home and go wherever I go.

Pang Meiqing

We see another big flood coming, after having all this development on the flood plain. And the damages are just going to get greater and greater.

Peter Goodwin

Jamaica Plain is a very diverse community. There are families as well as yuppies, artist types and students.

Jay Johnston

Plain and simply, we care what our city looks like. They think they can get away with some of that because they have in the past, and it's time to address some of that.

Susan Kirk

The security of their equipment is paramount and leaving them in an open space is just plain silliness.

Glenn Tasker

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

Maybe it's because of Boeing. Maybe it's because people here have a technical bent. Or maybe it's because it's just plain fun. Whatever the reason, Seattle is a mecca for modeling.

Tim Nelson

There are some tremendous values in this market among just plain old normal companies.

Alan Snyder

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; / In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet.

Mary Worley Montagu

Our problem right now is we don't know if we can win. We get guys in position and we don't do anything with the bats. We've got to learn how to execute to win. It's as plain as that.

Todd Iwema

This outrageous conduct is just plain wrong and has no place in our schools or society. He never again will be allowed near anyone in our schools.

Michael Best

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

James Jeans

Plain-dealing is a jewel, and he that useth it shall die a beggar.

Henry Porter

NTP only wins if they get paid out. They don't win if RIM goes to zero. NTP is looking for money, plain and simple. And RIM has a lot of cash.

Barry Richards

[According to his old UNLV roommate, Chad Campbell always orders his burgers without any fixings.] He's just a plain guy, ... So, did you go to the golf tournament today?

Chris Riley

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Maude Adams

I'm having fun, plain and simple, ... I'm having fun and everybody's taking care of their business. I haven't felt like this in like three years, since 1997.

Kordell Stewart

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.

Frances Mcdormand

What we have here is plain abuse, no doubt about it. There is no justification.

Chris Graveline

I messed up. I hung a curveball, plain and simple.

Jon Rauch

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

Henry Brooks Adams

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

Anna Ford

It's a tired old saying that I don't listen to any more, ... For every dollar we bring in from over there, we spend $2, plain and simple.

Tom Stone

It was just plain good luck for the Biloxi and New Orleans areas, ... It meant that Katrina definitely came ashore much weaker than many had feared and many of us were forecasting.

Greg Holland

It is a kick in the guts for the families of those 88 Australians, young Australians, who were murdered in Bali. It's just plain wrong.

Kevin Rudd

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

John Mayer

One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.

Owen Meredith

We still go over calls, ... It is hard in plain clothes to jump in because people will ask, 'Who is this guy?'

Ron Blair

Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.

Tryon Edwards

The plain legal meaning of (the) ruling is that Kirby Wilbur and I can no longer talk about Initiative 912.

John Carlson

Our government should have done everything, should have spoken up very, very loudly, very, very publicly to the Indonesian government and made it very, very plain that this (was) not an act of a good neighbour.

Brian Deegan

We've got a lot of work to do, plain and simple. This bye didn't look to be in a particularly good spot when it first came out. But obviously right now, it's what we need.

Brian Billick

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Jerry Garcia

That is totally unfair to people, and just plain silly.

Jim Randel

As the male was giving his statement to the officers, several items of drug paraphernalia were observed in plain view.

Darren Moloney

The results from the 2004 election in Alaska just plain look squirrelly.

Jim March

It's plain and simple. Where there has been evidence of music theft, there are consequences for illegal activity.

Jenni Engebretsen

This is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law.

Nick Taylor

People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds up a mirror for you?

Isaac Asimov

What this proves is that the government is not prepared to try this case, plain and simple.

Johnny Griffin

It will take an act of Congress to open the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain for drilling. Many Republicans agree no drilling should occur.

Bill Meadows

It was a good performance for us. We just faced a team that is better than we are. Plain and simple.

Bill Kelley

She is plain but on the stage she looks all right.

Jessica Tandy

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Jean Kerr

Officer McGuire committed a terrible act of plain incompetence and he's still out there with a badge and a .40-caliber pistol. Should he be out there? I say no.

Pedro Irigonegaray

Kitty is just someone Matt has to visit every once in a while. We never say it, but Kitty is a prostitute, plain and simple.

John Dunning

They had a plain, old round magnetic compass and a watch and they used landmarks on the ground. They did it with skill and familiarity with basic flight instruments. They were really some amazing pilots.

Don Riggs

He's a good pitcher, but we have to do a better job of making contact. We just didn't hit the baseball, plain and simple. Colby probably should have gotten a 'W.' He pitched a great game.

Derek Ergle

It's maddening. I didn't get depressed or hang my head. I was frustrated with myself because I know that I am faster than that. We are better than what we showed today, plain and simple.

Kayle Buchanan

I hate to gain points like that, but that's plain racing luck, ... We have had bad luck this year, also. He will be able to bounce back, and that just makes for an even closer points race.

Clint Bowyer

The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.

Saint Ignatius Of Loyola

We?re just plain against it. It?s a David and Goliath situation. We?re just the little people who live in Limerick.

Dan Peters

The kids did a real nice job on (Peterson). They did it by chasing him and I think they just plain wore him out. That just shows the character of these kids.

Tim Ehresman

These individuals are often hiding in plain sight in cities like Lackawanna, Lodi, Torrance and now Toledo.

John Pistole

What's especially important is that it comes on a non-summer, non-holiday, non-weekend day. It's a plain-old Wednesday in mid-May -- that's not bad business.

Martin Grove

People who do best in a field (financially) just plain put in more hours.

Warren Farrell

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Evelyn Waugh

When you do something like this, you do increase the vulnerability for fraud, plain waste, abuse and mismanagement, ... We are very apprehensive about what we are seeing.

Richard Skinner

This case is not about bad actors. It's about technology and who gets to control it, plain and simple.

Michael Weiss

If you put the signs up, they're in plain daylight for them to see. Chances are you're going to get a few students coming in and taking advantage of the bargains.

Carlos Flores

We know that some of these fugitives might come to New York to blend into the crowd or hide in plain sight.

Jim Margolin

We're going out in the market with plain vanilla paper that in today's world is a bit restrictive.

Jay Walder

The people who are saying ethanol is bad are just plain wrong.

Daniel Kammen

This is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law. It's not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied.

Nick Taylor

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Bible

The logic behind it is if you're desperately in debt, you might burn the car to collect the insurance. That's the plain and simple of it.

Madelyn Flannagan

Like any investigation that is going on, there has to be peer-to-peer cooperation. We are talking about organized criminals operating on an international plain.

Neil Schwartzman

Once we remove both houses, the intent is to let the flood plain just become a natural area. It would be similar to what you see under power lines.

Robert Quigley

Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

The Arts Council and its affiliates bring a lot of money to this city. To not vote to give them money is just plain crazy.

Tom Lynch

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Sir Winston Churchill

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.

Jane Austen

I firmly believe that if you're going to build in a hundred year flood plain, that's a risk you take . Otherwise I think it's ignorance .

Ben Biermann

I also like dill on fish, the plain herbs. Lemon pepper is also good on fish. It's tough to go wrong with lemon pepper. Simply prepared is best -- just butter and some herbs.

Frank Locante

Doesn't that have to be abuse of discretion? Isn't that a plain violation of the law?

Stanley Marcus

I think it good plain English, without fraud, To call a spade a spade, a bawd a bawd.

John Taylor

There are things you've always assumed - or heard your entire life - and some of them turn out to be just plain untrue.

Paige Parrish

I just didn't hit the ball well, plain and simple.

Reggie Hodges

They were originally going to make plain brown teddy bears, and they were going to donate them to the kids in the hospital, but the inmates really became into the program and were able to crochet stuffed animals very well.

Daniel Ford

It was plain and simple, we did not run the football.

Jim Provuncher

Our pitching was not up to par and neither was our defense. It was one thing after another. We were bad, plain and simple.

Dave Rowell

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err again but less and less and less.

Piet Hein

It is easy, of course, to fault a decision that ends in failure, once hindsight makes the result of that decision plain to see. But the essence of business is risk ? the application of informed belief to contingencies whose outcomes can sometimes be predicted, but never known.

William Chandler

Just plain wrong, and repeated.

Richard Durbin

We have grown as a band, but we haven't lost our notorious sense of humor. I'd call our music plain and simple hard-core metal.

Keith Buckley

Never before in the history of our nation has government permission been required to travel freely in our country. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional. It's just plain wrong.

Bill Scannell

We would love to be boring. Plain vanilla is fine.

Peggy Fowler

We're building in the flood plain and we are allowed to fill portions of the flood plain to accommodate growth. Whether that's right or wrong is a public discussion that should occur.

Robert Tiedemann

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

When money's tight and hard to get - and your horse is also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt a pint of plain is your only man.

Old Irish Toast

We said if you don't need to develop in a flood plain, don't do it, ... We had top talent working on that report, a bunch of very smart people.

Gerald Galloway

If you cry 'Forward!' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?

Anton Chekhov

These people do not care, plain and simple.

Felicia Joseph

I want to win, plain and simple. I want to be a part of something good. That's why I came here. I had great expectations.

Dre Bly

The second half, we collapsed. Plain and simple.

Gary Bennett

The attack on the bus is hate speech, plain and simple.

Jacob Reitan

This, plain and simple, is the long arm of OSHA reaching into people's homes. We think it's wrong. We oppose it.

Patrick Cleary

You just take a plain hat, change it and walk out in a new hat.

Linda Decker

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

Roy L. Smith

And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buck limit. But five would be a nice place to start.

Charles Ruth

Plain and simple, the Grateful Dead define the van culture. For the past 35 plus years, deadheads have followed Jerry G. and the gang around the country in microbuses.

Jeff Bourne

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.

Uma Thurman

For an advertiser, the advantages are numerous. From a customer's perspective, it's just plain cool.

Mark Bowen

He's just a plain guy, So, did you go to the golf tournament today?

Chris Riley

She was not in a happy marriage. That's all she complained to us about, or she wouldn't have never been sleeping with my son. I'm sorry, plain and simple, that's what she was doing.

Sharon Bradford

I just plain messed up at the district tournament. I lost to guys I beat during the season and they qualified. It was a big disappointment, but I hope to make up for that this year.

Frankie Ramirez

Kentucky lost one of its finest citizens. Fred was the epitome of honesty, decency, basic goodness and plain old common sense.

Gov. Brereton Jones

What we have here, plain and simple, is a case of gross mismanagement of a multimillion-dollar contract. Worst of all, it's seriously weakened our border security.

Mike Rogers

They love lettuce and will fight over it. Only they love the expensive organic lettuce, not (plain) head lettuce.

Michelle Saltzman

Oh! rather give me commentators plain, / Who with no deep researches vex the brain; / Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, / And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

George Crabbe

Let me make this plain, Chris Lorenzo, and I also mean his brother Irv, did not launder anyone's money. Supreme never brought money of any kind.

Gerald Shargel

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

Larry McMurtry

This is just intimidation, plain intimidation.

Jorge Mujica

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Alfred Edward Housman

There is going to be a lot of plain-talking in this election.

Willy Brandt

What we want the government to do is to make it plain that currency values should reflect economic fundamentals, and governments shouldn't interfere with that.

Frank Vargo

Dr. Barnes really believed that this should be accessible to, as he said, the plain people.

Rebecca Rimel

Let me make this plain, Chris Lorenzo, and I also mean his brother Irv, did not launder anyone's money, ... Supreme never brought money of any kind.

Gerald Lefcourt

That balance and that ability to be so precise is something that can't be taught. He was born to do this, plain and simple.

Eric Koston

See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

Edwin Muir

Maybe he could have just been plain tired, burned out. Lane 1 will do that to you.

Edwin Moses

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Edmond About

It was gorgeous, but it was very very plain, very stylish.

Edith Mayo

When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.

Eric Katzman