Pleach Quotes & Sayings

One of the great benefits of being married is always having someone to tie one's tie. — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure - the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from the preface; on writing for people around the world] — Alexander McCall Smith

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation. — Isak Dinesen

Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and suffer. She is experiencing a brand-new feeling called nostalgia. That feeling, that irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of her past; in the house of her life [ ... ] from now on her existence will be inconceivable without these feelings. — Milan Kundera

How do you know I have a brother?" Cal wasn't playing anymore. The suspicion was real and I was already moving, the switchblade hidden in my hand.
"You always do. Or a cousin or a best friend bonded by blood. Something of thet dramatic overwrought nature. Someone who is wirtually attached to you at the hip. Let me speak to him. He's invariably more reasonable. — Rob Thurman

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it. — Whoopi Goldberg

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old. — Paul Weller

The catalyst of action is intent.
It's the other end of the bullet. — Jonathan Hickman

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique. — Os Guinness

Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders ... — Stephen Fry

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it. — Charles Darwin

But why? Why don't I want to fight when fight is all I've ever known and loved? I've fought for every inch of joy I've ever known. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world. — John Carmack