William Plumer Quotes & Sayings

The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes
articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness
it's too shallow to be called nihilism
undermines even the best scenes. — David Denby

The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon. — Sarah Addison Allen

He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more — William Swan Plumer

Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together. — Jeremy London

It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it. — Obafemi Awolowo

If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones. — Michael Muhammad Knight

Some pious souls are troubled because they cannot at all times, or often, use, in its joyous import, the language of this Psalm. Such should remember that David, though he lived long, never wrote but one twenty-third Psalm. Some of his odes do indeed express as lively a faith as this, and faith can walk in darkness. But where else do we find a whole Psalm expressive of personal confidence, joy, and triumph, from beginning to end? God's people have their seasons of darkness and their times of rejoicing. — William Swan Plumer

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people. — Malcolm McDowell

As William Plumer of New Hampshire complained, It is impossible to censure measures without condemning men. — Gordon S. Wood

Laura was going to sew herself into the shape of happiness all on her own. — Emma Straub