Ploughman Poet Quotes & Sayings

Leo will be coming with us," Emma offered, trying to sound optimistic. "He's a downsider." "I'm not sure that's exactly his field of expertise," said Claire honestly, trying to picture Leo as a medtech. He didn't care for hydraulic systems, he'd said. — Lois McMaster Bujold

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need. — Joe Jamail

There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time.
But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself. — Simone De Beauvoir

One of the secret masters of
the world: a librarian. They
control information. Don't ever p**s one off. — Spider Robinson

Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. To this there is but one reply: "In former days. — Victor Hugo

If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat. — Jerry Springer

Miz Louisa, she believed in God with all her soul. But she don't subscribe to church much. She say the way some folk run they's churches, it take God right out cha heart.' - Eugene Randall — David Baldacci

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. — Epictetus

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment ... He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation. — Christopher Dodd

I'm Detective Piper of the Fairyland Metro Police, and I've been called in to investigate the incident of the missing frog prince ... — A.F. Stewart

I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do. — Walter Cronkite