#plain

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights? ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#explains #how #i #lights #look

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#blues #find #folk #folk music #just

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#death #england #entails #explains #history

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. ↗

— James A. Michener

#century #complains #explains #great #i

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#biggest #complaint #culture #enough #eternity

Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bush #call #common #communal #effort

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#clarity #complaining #contribute #could #emotional

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#even #i #much #myself #ordinary

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#everything #explains #nothing #psychology #still

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that. ↗

— Chris Morris

#buy #explain #fiction #i #international