#plain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ↗

— Mark Twain

#disappear #explained #mad #mysteries #remember

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#complain #getting #hear #i #leave

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#beautiful #beautiful way #exchanging #harmony #laborious

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#became #literary #marriage #our #ours

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#demonstrates #explains #good #good teacher #inspires

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#away #especially #get #manners #need

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#about #approach #assured #being #community

Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality. ↗

— Reggie White

#america #become #been #biggest #debate

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#enabled #plain #private #reason #school system

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗

— James Wolcott

#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory