#plain

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. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#committed #completely #could #day #every

I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. ↗

— Azealia Banks

#because #explain #going #i #just

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine

I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song. ↗

— Clint Black

#been #captured #christmas #explained #feel

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #car #design #designer #engineer

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye. ↗

— Lewis Black

#absolutely nothing #because #clock #course #economics

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#american society #bad #bad guys #cinema #explains

Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#comb #growing #growing up #had #hair

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#explain #ghost #idea #itself #like

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? ↗

— Charles Dickens

#being #below #common #common people #complaint