#plain

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. ↗

— Hart Crane

#between #delusion #exist #explain #form

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. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#captain #else #fights #had #i

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#explain #five #i #live #minutes

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#complain #more #painful #than #those

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it. ↗

— Dick Dale

#explaining #i #put #sheet #songs

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#about #another #complaining #days #doing

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#any #because #becoming #comfortable #feel

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#church #desire #did #duty #farther

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ↗

— Greg Egan

#caffeine #century #explains #lot #twentieth

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#how #human #interaction #just #kids