Zitat des Tages über Einfach / Plain:
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.
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.
We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.
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.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
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.
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
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.
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.
Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
