All Quotes

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.
‐‐ Paula Radcliffe

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

Plodding wins the race.
‐‐ Aesop

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
‐‐ Patrick Ness

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is... My process is a bit messier.
‐‐ Erin Morgenstern

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.
‐‐ Stanley Elkin

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
‐‐ Ned Beauman

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.
‐‐ Caroline Lawrence

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
‐‐ Horace Walpole

Plot-wise, there's nothing particularly groundbreaking about 'Scalped.' It starts off as something we've seen plenty of times before: the story of an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal organization and the story of the guy at the head of that organization. The twist was always the setting: a modern-day Native American reservation.
‐‐ Jason Aaron

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
‐‐ Henry Miller

Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
‐‐ Elizabeth George

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.
‐‐ Tika Sumpter

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.
‐‐ Peter R. Grant

Plumbing is usually boring.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
‐‐ Bradley Chicho

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism... you have to know that Jesus died and believe in it in order to be saved.
‐‐ Norman Geisler

Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.
‐‐ Nathan Deal

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.
‐‐ Steve Israel

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.
‐‐ Sarah Polley

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
‐‐ Bill Bruford

Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
‐‐ Taylor Dayne

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.
‐‐ Little Richard

Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.
‐‐ Rob Brydon

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
‐‐ Alain Robert

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
‐‐ David Crane

Plus-size girls can look to the Plus-Size Fashion Weekends and feel like it's special - it's something for them and for their bodies.
‐‐ Hayley Hasselhoff

Plus-sized women shouldn't think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn't mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like.
‐‐ Donatella Versace

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
‐‐ Brian Boitano

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
‐‐ Vanessa Carlton

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.
‐‐ Dwight Gooden

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.
‐‐ Graham Joyce

'Plutona' is the story of five kids who find the body of the world's greatest superhero in the woods after school one day. It's about how this discovery, and the decisions they make, affect them as a group and individually.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

Plyometrics. Hate them. Enough already. Jumping around, using your own body weight is so hard to me. How did we do it as kids?
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout