Plinths Quotes & Sayings

I've come to recognize that questions of law and justice are at the same time questions of power. — William T. Vollmann

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked. — Tracey Emin

When you're at a lunch, enjoy being - I'm always on my phone when I'm at lunch or with things here or there. I've learned to put the phone down and be present. — Khloe Kardashian

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. — Joss Whedon

The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!" — Peter McWilliams

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity. — Julie Bishop

It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself. — Winthrop W. Aldrich

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit. — Robert Kirkman

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites. — Frederic Tcheng

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. — Rudyard Kipling

Your past has already been written and the words cannot be changed, but your future is waiting to be written; make it a bestseller. — Abigail Landsbrook

It was at this time that people found along the roads and highways little children, tiny vagabonds who refused to grow up. Little girls of seven years knelt and prayed that they might not grow older, for puberty seemed to them a sign of mortality. — Marcel Schwob

How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair. — Laozi

But even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death) — J.D. Robb

And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same. — J.K. Rowling

No old lady would be that conniving if she didn't have a little spunk left in her. — Susan Ornbratt