Plutherough Quotes & Sayings

I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started to late. I will never catch up. — Alan Bennett

I'm - I'm Marjorie, a fourteen-year-old girl, scared of everything, who doesn't know why she hears voices that tell her confusing things. And I try to be good and I try. Try not to listen to them.
Are you scared and confused like I am? I think everyone is secretly like me. — Paul Tremblay

I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like security for making one fall asleep; I like life well enough to live it awake, and so, in the very midst of my riches, I maintain the sensation of a state of precariousness, by which means I aggravate, or at any rate intensify, my life. I will not say I like danger, but I like life to be hazardous, and I want it to demand at every moment the whole of my courage, my happiness, my health ... — Andre Gide

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world. — Ben Gibbard

I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [ ... ] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself. — Ronnie Drew

If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads. — Robert Mugabe

Mary was a bright and shining star," Mr. P said. "And then she faded year by year until you could barely see her anymore. — Sherman Alexie

Occasionally Rebecca wished her son would not be so very kind to her, as though she was the losing pitcher on a Little League team. — Anna Quindlen

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you. — Robert Breault