Plamann Quotes & Sayings

A man without discipline is no better than a dog. A soldier without discipline is no better than a corpse. Worse, in fact. A corpse is no threat to his comrades. — Joe Abercrombie

In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort. — Abraham Verghese

When I was 12 or 13, I started to watch films and understand more about the craft and that helped me to develop. But it also felt like a game, because it was fun. I mean, all of us do it when we're kids to a degree - play acting. But then I came to realise that it's a lovely way to express yourself. So, my passion for it developed as I got older. — Yasmin Paige

So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution? — Alexander McCall Smith

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open. — Jack Kornfield

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support. — Diana Wynne Jones

And if we all did what we should, we would wake to find ourselves in paradise — Deborah Harkness

Passion without perseverance
is fire without fuel. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Not all popular novelists are good,
but all good novelists are,
sooner or later, popular. — Dean Koontz

I have long been aggravated, and it increases, about the way that society values women almost exclusively for their beauty and youth, and when we get older, tries to make us powerless - just when we're at our most knowledgeable, and most capable. It's so rotten. I gnash my teeth. — Maria Dahvana Headley

window, with Rig trotting — Philippa Gregory

Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the Shadow. — Salman Rushdie

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm. — Andy Goldsworthy

In England, people had been loudly proclaiming the death of the guitar and the birth of the synthesizer, but Sonic Youth and other American guitar bands started to create a buzz. — Kim Gordon