Plackett Quotes & Sayings

You always miss 100% of the shots you don't order — Josh Stern

It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas. — Isaac Asimov

Had these beliefs, if I had not known that I must live for God and not for my own desires? I should have robbed and lied and killed. Nothing of what makes the chief happiness of my life would have existed for me. — Leo Tolstoy

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits. — Sophie Swetchine

There was enough glamour in that one corner to choke a dragon. — Julie Kagawa

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know. — Robert Downey Jr.

Mrs. Plackett did not believe in letting emotion show. Keep yourself to yourself had always been her motto. — Rosamunde Pilcher

Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.'
She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall. — Eva Ibbotson

Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you. — Burt Rutan

The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality. — Henry James

Finding your path means finding out what you were put here on this earth to do. What is your life's purpose? Why were you given this gift called life? And what is the gift you give back to life? — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project. — Jerry Garcia