Plowright Joan Quotes & Sayings

I'll die before I stop wanting you. — Thea Harrison

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor. — Tim O'Brien

Why did the blonde get so excited after she finished her jigsaw puzzle in only six months? Because on the box it said 'From 2 to 4 years.' *** — Various

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort. — Terry Gilliam

On an average, we celebrate 4-5 festivals per month. There are the major ones like Christmas and Diwali and then there are minor ones like whatsitsname-get-drunk-and-dance-in-front-of-temple-near-bomanahalli festival. — Rachna Singh

I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality. — Aaron Sorkin

Exercise to live. Never live to exercise. — Jack LaLanne

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest. — Jill Lepore

Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice. — Hilary Mantel

Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever. — George R R Martin

Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent. — Joan Plowright

After the alarm clock, it is the turn of Mr Kellogg to shame us into action. 'Rise and Shine!' he exhorts us from the Corn Flakes packet. The physical act of crunching cornflakes or other cereals is portraied in TV advertising as working an amazing alchemy on slothful human beings: the incoherent, unshaven sluggard (bad) is magically transformed into a smart and jolly worker full of vigour and purpose (good) by the positive power of cereal. Kellogg himself, tellingly, was a puritanical health-nut who never had sex (he preferred enemas). Such are the architects of our daily life. — Tom Hodgkinson

The scene taking place illustrates an immemorial error of men: having appropriated the role of seducers, they never even consider any women but the ones they might desire; the idea doesn't occur to them that a woman who is ugly or odd, or who simply stands outside their own erotic imaginings, might want to possess them. — Milan Kundera