Plackett Quotes

#1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

David T. Dellinger

#2. One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

Gabourey Sidibe

#3. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Stephen Mangan

#4. I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.

Randy Harrison

#5. Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if you make a million bucks, about 90% of your salary is tax free when it comes to the payroll tax that funds Soc Sec. That ain't right.

Jared Bernstein

#6. Sean settles swiftly behind me, and I'm startled by the sudden closeness of him, my back suddenly warm against his chest, the press of his hips on against me. i turn to ask him a question, and he jerks his face away from the proximity of mine. I say, Oh. Sorry.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

Adrian Cronauer

#8. When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

Alexandra Daddario

#9. Turning his back on the village of Unwin, Chiave lumbered into the forest, barely able to walk under the weight of all he carried.

Amanda Orneck

#10. I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

John McGahern

#11. None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

Joe Namath

#12. In my world it's impossible to be running late for anything at seven in the morning,

A.R. Wise

#13. While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.

Sara Sheridan

#14. Mrs. Plackett did not believe in letting emotion show. Keep yourself to yourself had always been her motto.

Rosamunde Pilcher