Plainly Stated Quotes

#1. It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#2. Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

George Haven Putnam

#3. What's the weirdest thing you've pierced?"
"Earlobes," he plainly stated.
"Earlobes?"
"Yeah," he said. "Once you've held a couple dozen penises in your hand, earlobes are just weird.

Sean Aiken

#4. The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

Stanley Kubrick

#5. I want to perform an unnatural act.

Lenny Bruce

#6. I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.

Golda Meir

#8. There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.

Greg MacGillivray

#9. Lady, you have just become a wanted woman. I suggest you start running.

Poppet

#10. Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

Graham Norton

#11. The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.

Warren Ellis

#12. [Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#13. Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.

Tupac Shakur

#14. You shouldn't overestimate the power of a single judge.

Udo Di Fabio

#15. I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'

Peter Capaldi

#16. We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.

Alec Baldwin