Gangplank Quotes

#1. In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.

David Levering Lewis

#2. head of the gangplank, she would drop the goat

Diana Gabaldon

#3. Natural gas is not a bridge - it's a gangplank.

Michael Brune

#4. Natural gas is a bridge fuel. But it's not a bridge - it's a gangplank. It's either a bridge in space or a bridge in time. The bridge in time we don't need. We have renewable technology right now.

Josh Fox

#5. It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year ... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?

E.L. Doctorow

#6. I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.

James Wolcott

#7. Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

Conan O'Brien

#8. I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

Terry Pratchett

#9. I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.

Francis Ford Coppola

#10. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Bill Parcells

#11. Time is lord of thee:
Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

Thomas Love Peacock

#12. The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'

Lorrie Moore

#13. I was concussed! My brain was scrambled. Whatever I said, it didn't count.
I'm sorry to hear that. I kind of liked the idea of being gorgeous.
I'm sure you already know that.
It's still nice to know that you think
so.

Kelly Oram

#14. light can change the atmosphere in dark places

Jan Jansen

#15. Each person can achieve balance by cutting a few things out and seeing how it goes. If you cut something out, and it goes well, and your life is better, you keep doing it.

Kim Stolz