#plain

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining. ↗

— Grace Jones

#accept #believe #complaining #consequences #decisions

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

— James Kirkwood

#i #incredible #just #missing #out

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#chaps #explaining #go #going #how

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#alone #consciousness #day #delicious #entangled

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#early #explain #form #fun #had

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. ↗

— Frances McDormand

#actress #again #career #careers #character

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#complaining #concert #go #hours #shoes

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#causing #challenge #constant #disease #doctor

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#either #environment #explained #family #genes

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#bet #faster #growing #i #java