Just Plain Quotes

#1. Do not lose heart. We were made for these times ... For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for ... and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#2. Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.

M.J. Rose

#3. Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Nancy Pelosi

#4. Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Athol Fugard

#5. Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look ridiculous in public. They're in love, so they don't hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid.

Austin Kleon

#6. I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

Bebe Neuwirth

#7. Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.

Robert Rankin

#8. Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.

George Carlin

#9. 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

#10. She had trouble keeping her mouth shut when she didn't agree with someone or felt they were just plain stupid.

Sierra Hill

#11. People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

John Goodman

#12. You play with your tongue? You know, I can, too. Just when I do, it's cuter," I paused, "sexier even. Your tongue play? Ugh, just plain creepy. Anyone tell you that your real tongue is not suitable for foreplay?

Alyse M. Gardner

#13. Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach.

Erik Naggum

#14. Which meant I got left with Quinn yet again. Given the time he was taking to make his decision, I wasn't exactly happy about that. I mean, putting me with him was like flashing chocolate my way then telling me I couldn't have it. It was just plain mean.

Keri Arthur

#15. 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.

Dick Cavett

#16. If all you do is work, you're unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision making wind up skewed. You stop being able to decide what's worth extra effort and what's not. And you wind up just plain tired. No one makes sharp decisions when tired.

Jason Fried

#17. I learned the difference between critical thinking and being just plain critical.

Sarah Bessey

#18. The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Arabella Weir

#19. If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

Thomas Merton

#20. Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

Ellen Goodman

#21. Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Walter Lord

#22. The boy came to believe that going west was more than just a fancy for someplace new. He came to see it as a part of his soul, a missing piece that could only be made whole on some far-off mountain or plain.

Michael Punke

#23. Without mountains and valleys life would just be plain.

Ted Agon

#24. 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.

Karl Malone

#25. Sometimes, people just stop wanting to be with you, plain and simple. It happens. And it's always best to just leave it at that. It's always best to just let it all go.

Marla Miniano

#26. 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.

Jessica Valenti

#27. I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

Dennis Miller

#28. You can tell when something is right because most things are just plain wrong.

Caroline Kepnes

#29. Some people feel 'transformed' from the first day they begin running; others feel that it's just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is both. I know how great running can feel, but I also know it can feel not so great, even downright awful! It can be fun, but it takes work to have that fun.

Grete Waitz

#30. God has smiled on me, He has set me free. For us to acknowledge that we have been set free from toxic dependency, from crippling obsession or guilt, that we have been graced with the ability finally to forgive someone, is just plain astonishing.

Anne Lamott

#31. Provide for her Future - if you can! - That's my motto! - But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#32. I wanted to cover as much distance as possible to be away from where we were, but there was a storm which restricted me. And now, I have been praying for more snow for the last two days, but it's just melting away to plain water.

Sapan Saxena

#33. Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need.

M.J. Ryan

#34. 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.

Donald Ray Pollock

#35. If I were her? First thing I'd do is torch my little black book and start over again. Because the men that woman attracts are just plain odd.

Elizabeth Bevarly

#36. Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#37. It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn't say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

Hunter S. Thompson

#38. I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

James Kirkwood

#39. If I walked in on two of my clones having sex, I'd think it was gay, incestuous, and just plain rude to have not invited me.

Jarod Kintz

#40. You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.

James Earl Jones

#41. Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Aileen Fisher

#42. Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.

Kin Hubbard

#43. Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

Willard Scott

#44. 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

#45. Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

John Dingell

#46. TRUTH is the true victim today. Truth has become the politically incorrect "No-No" born from fear of government, school peer and/or family pressures and penalties, or just plain evasion, lying, cheating, and/or corruption-laden behavior on personal and business levels.

Alexandra York

#47. Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

Pam Grier

#48. You are evil woman, just plain evil.

Carroll Bryant

#49. Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.

Alexandra Adornetto

#50. 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

#51. We also know that God is no respecter of persons. A plain factory hand who does his work faithfully pleases God just as much as a minister of the Word.

Martin Luther

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

Phil McGraw

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

Jayne Meadows

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. Introduction to Amanda. - The equal measure of fear and desire her double-barrelled bust induced was plain to see. It might have been a mundane observation but it was something of an epiphany to Amanda just what it meant to be the only person in the room wearing a bra.

Francine Scott

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

Katherine Paterson

#66. When looking for answers or solving something, usually people tend to look in the hard places or the corners. But sometimes, the answers are just right in plain view

Janice Liang

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

Joe Novella

#68. 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

#69. You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

Ashley Tisdale

#70. 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

#71. The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself.

Jerry Brown

#72. 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.

James Laughlin

#73. 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

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

Vincent H. O'Neil

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

Dan O'Neill

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

John Wyndham

#77. 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

#78. I think that people love 'Wipeout' simply because it's just plain, simple fun.

Jill Wagner

#79. Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie - that he would never now be able to speak freely of everything - that he would never again be able to speak of anything to anyone.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#80. I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#81. I'm not the Ambassador," said Crosby. "I wish I was, but I'm just a plain, ordinary business man.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#82. Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either specially hated by other animals or specially cherished. Instead of the truth, which is that he's just another animal on the plain. A smart one, but just another animal.

Michael Crichton

#83. The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

Agatha Christie

#84. Unless I'm asked to dress up in a costume, TV shows prefer a clean, modern look, so I've developed a wardrobe full of plain, bright colours. If it's an outdoors job, I just wear big jumpers.

Kate Williams

#85. I felt pain like an assault,
The old pain again
When the world thrusts itself inside,
When we have to take in the outside,
When we have to decide
To be the crazy-human with hope
Or just plain crazy
With fear.

May Sarton

#86. I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.

Seth Godin

#87. How did you decide when someone was irretrievably lost - when they were so evil or toxic or just plain set in their ways that you had to face the fact they were never going to change? How long could you keep trying to save them, and when did you give up and grieve for them as though they were dead?

Rick Riordan

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it'll be those cluster things - it's a bit random - and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too much in case I get a bad belly ... and jelly just before I go on for a bit of energy!

Jade Jones

#91. 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

#92. There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something more than a man. He isn't. If he were, then he wouldn't be any good at all.
There is no great mystery about Spartacus.

Howard Fast

#93. 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

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

Wentworth Boughn

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

Jack Lambert

#96. 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

#97. It's an open horizon before us, as far as the eye can see: no angst and no games, just mutual delight. So simple, but so rich. Like chocolate. Not a gold-dusted truffle or a foofy pastry tower teetering on a crystal platter, but a plain, honest bar of the best chocolate in the world.

Laini Taylor

#98. The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.

Randy Newman

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

Anna Banks

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

Mary Hughes