Plimmerton Quotes & Sayings

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress. — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

Vimes had believed all his life that the Watch were called coppers because they carried copper badges, but no, said Carrot, it comes from the old word cappere, to capture. — Terry Pratchett

We fit together better than James with Etta. — Jasmine Sandozz

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better. — Frans De Waal

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument. — Janet Weiss

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. — Frederick The Great

Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop. — Liezi

If opportunity knocks, let it in. But with the way things are nowadays-I'd rather meet opportunity somewhere that's more public. I could meet opportunity in a coffee shop, but what if it works there? Well, I could suggest my grandma's basement.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz — James Lee Schmidt

All she wanted was sax. — Billy Joel