Just Plain Quotes

#1. 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.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#2. Katya didn't know why she did it. Flirting with a volk krovi was just plain dangerous. It didn't matter how cute he was, you just didn't do it. He had a shitty attitude but it kind of heightened his appeal. Katya groaned inwardly at her stupidity.She killed his kind; she didn't flirt with them.

Amy Kuivalainen

#3. The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

Mink Stole

#4. I have seen some crazy people do some crazy things on my variety show. I have to stop and ask them a lot of the time, just how they figured out that they could do the things that they do, some of it is just plain freaky.

Steve Harvey

#5. I sit on the bed and think how life is never safe and they should tell you that right off the bat. Things happen out of order and just plain wrong, and there is not one thing you can do about it. The message of every morning is? ??????????

Elizabeth Berg

#6. She wouldn't be helpless, not ever, not if she could see a way out. She wouldn't allow that to happen. She could see that being helpless in a situation like this was dangerously close to becoming just plain less

Blue Balliett

#7. When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#8. While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited "disruptive innovation," today it's often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient relationship, of clinicians' professional interactions and work flow, and of the way we measure and try to improve things. I

Robert Wachter

#9. Spoon Feeding is only good for children not for adults. Let them think for themselves and don't baby them. They are just plain lazy.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#10. And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything, especially me.

Erin McKean

#11. Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to mention that it's just plain fun.

Darell Hammond

#12. There's a wild that's fucked and there's a wild that's just, plain wild. You just hooked yourself to a different kind of wild, Tess, and I swear, baby, swear," his arms squeezed before he finished, "I'll show you that's a good, safe place to be.

Kristen Ashley

#13. The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

Lisa Gardner

#14. Talking to someone, meditating, praying, or just plain crying it out helps. The most important thing after doing any of these things is to let them go. I focus on all of the many blessings surrounding me and all those I love, instead.

Betsy Landin

#15. Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

Mark Sanford

#16. You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

Richard McKenna

#17. I was fed up with being just plain Jane.

Jayne Meadows

#18. And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty.

Kim Harrison

#19. I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

Graham Hawkes

#20. The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

P. J. O'Rourke

#21. In our neighborhood it's rare to find a kid who doesn't drink once in a while. But Soda never touches a drop - he doesn't need to. He gets drunk on just plain living.

S.E. Hinton

#22. And why is it all men think
everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly
drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding
the perfect love?

V.C. Andrews

#23. In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field of, say, literary fiction can be just plain old-fashioned destruction when transferred to families yearning for faith at home.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#24. I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

Rodney Brooks

#25. But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

Jodi Picoult

#26. Even when they're not stoned, adolescents live in a world of ideation of their own making and follow trains of thought to extreme conclusions, despite overwhelming evidence that they're just plain wrong

Marc Lewis

#27. One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?

Robert Gottlieb

#28. The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

Howard Dean

#29. Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#30. I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

Jhonen Vasquez

#31. Murdering anything is just plain criminal, but a Southerner murdering a magnolia? Well, that's an unforgivable sacrilege against nautre and the South.

Beth Hoffman

#32. You little folks won't tell on me now, will you? It'd ruin my reputation if you did." "You mean all you drink in that sack's Coca-Cola? Just plain Coca-Cola?" "Yes

Harper Lee

#33. He remembered something else about those high school days wishing he could cut straight to that first kiss to get it out of the way. Partly to get rid of the suspense, knowing the moment was hours away. Partly because he just plain wanted to kiss her.

Sierra Donovan

#34. And he's just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary)
She's feisty, Skotos. I can see the appeal. (ZT)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#35. How does people killing each other solve the world's problems? Is it so that you can get rid of people that are annoying, or is it that the world is just plain stupid?

VanillaCreamPie8888

#36. In truth, if it isn't to save your life when it's in imminent danger, someone yelling at you is just plain wrong. The same is true for ranting or bitching. The same goes double for anything even close to manhandling.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#37. 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.

Charles M. Schwab

#38. I create recipes that are not just "good for gluten-free" but just plain GOOD, period!

Carol Kicinski

#39. If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

Andrew Williams

#40. So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it "evil." It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#41. Simmon pushed his hair out of his eyes, laughing boyishly. You can't argue your way out of this one! She's obviously stupid for you. And you're just plain stupid, so it's a great match.

Patrick Rothfuss

#42. Falling in love or just plain falling : they were both terrifying at any speed

Abigail Roux

#43. You're manic-depressive and you're manic-depressive too and you, you're definitely manic-depressive, girl. And you over there in the corner, you're just plain fucking depressive.

Colum McCann

#44. I felt confident that she wouldn't find out what a chicken I was,because after the comp,if I hadn't gone off the jump,I would be dead of shame.And if I had gone off the jump,I would be just plain dead.

Jennifer Echols

#45. If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#46. I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.

Dorothy Hamill

#47. February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

Katherine Paterson

#48. When someone believes they're smarter, more talented, just plain more right than anyone else, and they harbor this kind of need, they're very, very dangerous.

J.D. Robb

#49. It is an unrepresentative city ... .They are so darn sure they are right on everything. The conventional wisdom in Manhattan, Bush believed, often failed to take opposing views into account except to dismiss such opinions as uninformed, prejudiced, and just plain wrong.

Jon Meacham

#50. Italians love emotional people. If you're reserved you either have something to hide or you're just plain stupid.

Joe Novella

#51. And so the Afternoon Weekday Date Scorecard went like this: gay boys, 3. Bedsheets, below zero. Vatican-enforced check on virginity, 10. Sometimes life just plain sucked beyond the suckiest of suckage. And I was out of clean bedsheets, too.

Hayden Thorne

#52. There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

Walter Lord

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

George Carlin

#54. Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

Richard Russo

#55. The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

Howard Dean

#56. Perhaps more important, it also showed that you could get away with being a little dangerous, provocative, or just plain deep if you did it with a smile on your face and remembered that entertainment always came first. When done right, it's possible to be silly and subversive at the same time. F

Brian Jay Jones

#57. No, Gray. Intense is fucking you. This is just plain pathetic.

Elizabeth Finn

#58. There were pecans, there were cashews and then there was just plain nuts.

Mary Hughes

#59. 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.

Jill Lepore

#60. Safe isn't always better than sorry.
Sometimes you need sorry to appreciate the
safe. And sometimes safe is just plain boring.

Anna Banks

#61. Killing takes space. You need to move, to advance, to withdraw, and sometimes to just plain run for it.

Mark Lawrence

#62. -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?

Christine Feehan

#63. That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want!

Mindy Kaling

#64. With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

Philip Roth

#65. I am very aggressive and very physical. On the field, I guess I am just plain mean.

Jack Lambert

#66. You can only be innocent for so long. After that, you're just plain stupid.

Wentworth Boughn

#67. Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles,

Bob Dylan

#68. In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.

Mark Feuerstein

#69. I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

Loretta Young

#70. If I was so malicious or off-color or just plain wrongheaded that I had to constantly censor my conversation with a minister, then I needed the experience anyway.

Charlaine Harris

#71. Just. Plain. [Fu*king.] Grilled. Swordfish.

Howard Schultz

#72. You haven't heard a damn word I've said. See, this is why I can't stand your kinds. You light your candles and mumble your latin spells and pray to a god who isn't there, doesn't care, or is just plain crazy or cruel or both. The world burns and you praise the asshole who either set it or let it.

Rick Yancey

#73. What is the name of he who comes with eyes closed and fingers black, the one who draws the curtains back when dawn has come? 'Agha Thanatos' or just plain 'Death'? When will I know which is right?

Andre Alexis

#74. When you have that, you dream of this and when you have this, you dream of that. Maybe you call it romantic, but it's just plain stupidity. It destroys life.

Jaggi Vasudev

#75. That girl is just plain crazy," Chey said as she looped her arm through Arkadia's. 'I swear when they were handing out social skills she was still in the line for shoes.

Dzintra Sullivan

#76. It is wrong and just plain stupid not to ask your guidance when you so graciously make it available. I repent and trust your Holy Spirit to prompt me to pray for guidance every day. Thanksgiving

Rosemary Jensen

#77. The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

Ted Williams

#78. In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.

Craig Newmark

#79. 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.

Ben Stein

#80. Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

Lewis Black

#81. Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.

Ben Yagoda

#82. This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
[Women Know Everything!]

Dorothy Parker

#83. Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Muhammad Ali

#84. Putting us in risk is just plain stupid.

Joe Teti

#85. A writer who's a pro can take on almost any assignment, but if he or she doesn't much care about the subject, I try to dissuade the writer, as in that case the book can be just plain hard labor.

Sterling Lord

#86. Sometimes, sport is just plain pleasing to the eye, like watching La Belle France flit by on television during the Tour de France. I can do that for hours.

George Vecsey

#87. Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.

Robert Krulwich

#88. If a tattoo is supposed to make a statement, that kid's body is just plain babbling.

Vincent H. O'Neil

#89. Shelves without books were lonely and just plain wrong.

Ruta Sepetys

#90. See here, son, I am not a pessimistic man. I am just plain optimistic that the worst will prevail. That there is Sam's law, son." John

S.E. Swapp

#91. He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy.

Julia Quinn

#92. People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

Gilbert Gottfried

#93. Tonight she was just plain Liz, nobody extraordinary, paranormal, or otherwise.
Tomorrow, that would change.

Eli Hinze

#94. Morning people use up their perky too early and end up being just plain grumpy.

P.C. Cast

#95. Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

Dan O'Neill

#96. I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

Artie Shaw

#97. I'm not going to stay sround to send reapers to kill people who are too scared, or frightened, or JUST PLAIN STUPID to find joy in life.

Kim Harrison

#98. In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy

John Wyndham

#99. and everything about me goes from crying out to just plain crying

Rachel Cohn

#100. I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

Aleksandar Hemon