There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
We are plain quiet folk and I have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
We are plain qiuet folk and I have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! (Bilbo Beutlin in: The Hobbit)
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.
Andrew Wyke: You said everything was in plain view! Milo Tindle: Well aren't I the shifty old sly boots, then.
White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain ...
John Book: How do I look - I mean, do I look Amish? Rachel Lapp: [nods] You look plain.
There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific.
Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
