Top 37 Plainer Quotes
#1. Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.
Stephanie Mills
#2. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#3. There can hardly be a plainer proof of the lowness of our nature, until we have laid hold of the higher nature that belongs to us by birthright, than this, that even a just anger tends to make us unjust and unkind.
George MacDonald
#5. Facts speak plainer than words
Aesop
#6. I don't know how much plainer I can be than this. I love you, and that makes you the most important thing in my life, regardless of anything else.
Scarlett Cole
#7. Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a goddamn BlackBerry.
Merlin Mann
#8. But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.
Ulysses S. Grant
#10. The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features.
Emily Bronte
#11. I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#12. I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing.
Jean-Christophe Grange
#13. Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
Socrates
#14. Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
W. H. Auden
#15. Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.
Auberon Herbert
#16. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
Victor Hugo
#17. I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
Charles Lamb
#18. I should have made my meaning plainer," said Professor McGonagall, turning at last to look Umbridge directly in the eyes. "He has achieved high marks in all Defense Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher." Professor Umbridge's smile vanished as suddenly as a lightbulb blowing. She
J.K. Rowling
#19. One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
Helen Keller
#20. If you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
Phyllis Bottome
#21. How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.
Cameron Dokey
#22. In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
Ben Bova
#23. I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power.
Bram Stoker
#24. (One newsmagazine, in 1987, defined them, half facetiously, as "cognitively infectious musical agents.")
Oliver Sacks
#26. When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#27. He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#29. Do you dwell on everyone's junk when you meet them? Like, all you do all day long is think about dicks and janes? Is that your thing, Bailey? You can't stop thinking about what's in everyone's pants?
Brie Spangler
#30. You're a mother's dream, tall, dark and handsome, good manners, straight teeth and wealthy."
"What about her daughter's dream. How am I doing there?"
"Fulfilling them all." I lifted my head to kiss him softly.
Vi Keeland
#31. To get a hug from your dad makes you feel safer than just about anything in the world, and in his arms, you don't have to be brave or strong or selfless. You're daddy's little girl again, and just knowing he's there makes everything a little better, even if it doesn't really change anything.
Kristan Higgins
#32. human beings fail the way all complex systems fail: randomly and gradually.
Atul Gawande
#33. A good novel takes the reader into the heart of another person. It lands you smack into the life and times of someone else.
Mark Rubinstein
#34. She had always had a slight mistrust of busy people; the sort of people who described themselves as 'Flat-out Frantic!' What was the hurry? Why didn't they just slow down? Just what exactly were they so busy doing?
Liane Moriarty
#35. The classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork. They went
Mitch Albom
#36. It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.
John Green
#37. The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
Don DeLillo
