Plaschke Columns Quotes & Sayings

Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause — Claude C. Hopkins

When you're looking for a needle in a haystack, don't afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw. — A.J. Darkholme

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Turning a corner, I ran into an old acquaintance - one of those long-winded fellows whose conversational powers ignore time and embrace eternity. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do. — Jane Wiedlin

for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It had never occurred to Amithi that anything more than fine was an option. — Susan Gloss

The female asked him, "Have you ever been bait? Well, besides jailbait. Rowr." "I can't say that I have, ma'am." Texan accent? — Kresley Cole

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood. — Pope Francis

My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way. — Bobbi Brown

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice. — Gregory David Roberts

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together ... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself. — W. Somerset Maugham