#plain

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#farmers #hope #national #opportunity #out

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. ↗

— John Ambrose Fleming

#explain #inadequate #inorganic #manifestation #origin

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible. ↗

— Ben Folds

#chosen #i #like #make #many

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#became #beliefs #childhood #conduct #even

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.' ↗

— Genie Francis

#atlantic #be kind #because #being #britney

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#comes #complain #defend #her #illness

I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#clothes #community #complain #cooked #crippled

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#deny #does #exist #exists #explain

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.' ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#appear #because #bill #booth #business

Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#be nice #different #different people #fans #heard