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.
I think becoming an actor because it’s a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it’s plain sailing for hereon in, then you’re kidding yourself.
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
One thing that really gets on my nerves is people spitting on the streets! I fail to understand whether they are just plain uncivilized or uninformed about how the act only helps in spreading diseases.
I stick with a ’60s vintage aesthetic of letterman’s jackets, plain T-shirts, and good jeans.
The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.
You don’t want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.
The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.
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.
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful – just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.
Frankly, it’s depressing, each night sleeping in someone else’s home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn’t an ‘All in the Family’ cliche, but it’s still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can’t say when that will change.
I’ve rarely played glamorous roles. I don’t mind looking plain on camera.
Now I want to make it plain that ‘The Virgin Spring’ must be regarded as an aberration. It’s touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
People didn’t just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them. As pretty as the dresses might be, and as lovely as they might look on display, if a museum doesn’t hang the shifts beside them or acknowledge that the shifts existed, that exhibit’s incomplete.
I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don’t last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.
I have had a lot to deal with health wise, nothing is ever plain sailing, that is part and parcel of having a transplant. I have two children who I want to see grow up. It does give you a different outlook on life.
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.
A lot of wrestling interviews are boring, plain and simple. They don’t say anything you never heard before. Your basic wrestling interview is, you ask me how am I going to do, and I say, ‘I’m going to do my best. I’m going to wrestle hard.’
I’m such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it’s gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
If you are dressing up, then dress to the hilt, else let it go easy. But no matter what, pay attention to the nails. Whether you keep it short, long, varnished or plain, it has to look good.
Most of the time, I wear plain clothes or very simple, basic ones, and then I’ll have a statement earring or sunglasses.
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.
To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work – just plain, hard work.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Logically, when you talkin’ about folk music and blues, you find out it’s music of just plain people.
To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
I’m opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it’s plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
I don’t know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can’t play there, you should be home with your mama.
Few provisions of the Constitution are more plain than Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7: ‘No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.’
Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.
Today’s culture is based on selling us a lifestyle that does not exist. It is selling us values that are worth nothing. It is plain wrong.
If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I’m wearing – it’s a great way to dress up a plain outfit!
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy.
People say, ‘Jay, you’re a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.’ People that have themselves under control don’t have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.
It’s amazing what a coral-colored necklace can do to a plain brown cardigan.
I love cake. I love pie. I love potato chips. I love salt. I do not want yogurt, plain yogurt. It’s healthy. ‘Why don’t you like it?’ Because it tastes like bad breath.
I’ve definitely taken more family-friendly roles. Honestly, sometimes the edgier acting roles are not age-appropriate for kids but I have taken more projects that I feel have a great message or my kids can watch because of their age and that were just plain fun.
None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
Your character is always right. No real person thinks they’re being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong – so your characters can’t, either.
I used to always judge other people’s mistakes in the mountains. I think a bit differently now. Everybody’s gotten away with a mistake or poor decision out there at one point or another, but sometimes it catches up to you, or sometimes you’re just plain unlucky.
The idea that we’re going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
If I were going to prom again, I would wear a huge skirt and plain cotton tank. A big, poofy, flotation-device-sized skirt. I wish I had done that.
To pretend that there is no such thing as the Muslim world is specious, self-deluding, and – frankly – plain silly.
It’s not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.
