Plankholders Quotes & Sayings

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I wrote my book to free myself from it, not to be its prisoner. — Elena Ferrante

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe. — Maud Hart Lovelace

I like women who are self-sufficient. — Ty Pennington

It seems whenever we get too high hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving some thug nation comes along and decides we're a pushover all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up mighty anxiously to be sure the flag is still waving over us. Jimmy Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy — George M. Cohan

It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love. — Helen Oyeyemi

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. — Novak Djokovic

The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the
machine without raising the general standard of living. — George Orwell

Every great achiever knows the power of motivation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila. — Frederick Lenz

It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman. — Kevin Williamson

Not the bravest. Or the most daring. In Dr. Moorcraft's words, the greatest secret of the Plankholders was simply that, to the best of the army's assessment, they were the ones who cared about no one but themselves. — Brad Meltzer

In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain. — E. M. Forster

I'm not locked into playing one guy. — Jeff Bridges