Plain Quotes - page 22

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple. (Barry Ritholtz)
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts. View quote
Bebe Neuwirth
The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology. View quote
Ben Parr
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. View quote
Charles Kuralt
Mikhail?... Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners. -You will not find it. -Why am I not surprised? View quote
Christine Feehan
You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust. View quote
Connie Nielsen
I think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors. View quote
Cathy Moriarty
To work with children anywhere is just plain fun. View quote
Dale Murphy
I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult. View quote
Denis O'Hare
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. View quote
Djimon Hounsou
Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others. (Donald Ray Pollock)
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance. View quote
Donald Ray Pollock
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck. View quote
Ellen McLaughlin
I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it. View quote
Felicity Jones
People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. View quote
Gilbert Gottfried
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else. View quote
Graham Hawkes
People can snap. People have a limit. And some people are just plain nuts. View quote
Ilona Andrews
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. View quote
James Laughlin
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. View quote
Jayson Williams
There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that. (Jessica Jackley)
Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means. View quote
Jessica Valenti
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. View quote
Jhonen Vasquez
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. View quote
Jill Lepore
There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate. View quote
Jill Shalvis