#plains

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#complains #her #ignores #man #she

We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw. ↗

— Brian Clough

#complains #day #early #every #film

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. ↗

— Byron White

#decision #every #every time #explains #government

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. ↗

— Lucretius

#encounters #great #over #part #peril

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#bring #candidate #emotional #explains #person

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. ↗

— Steve Martin

#cringe #explains #gets #i #into

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. ↗

— John McCarthy

#explains #more #never #something #theory

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#complains #heart #his #lady #man

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#amid #been #called #charming #country

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. ↗

— James Wolcott

#air #bags #being #big #dedicated