Plaintively Quotes

#1. He remembered once hearing his grandmother ... say plaintively: Why daughter, I presume I can go without
BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE.

Edith Wharton

#2. What am I going to do with all these bodies?" Said Jimmy, just a bit plaintively."I can't keep them, I don't have the cupboard space.

Simon R. Green

#3. I said you lie, knave!" shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. "And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!"
The knight looked plaintively at Roger. "What's wrong with this fellow?"
He was dropped on his head when he was a baby," answered Roger.

Gerald Morris

#4. The birds disturbed from the network of waterways beneath the barges wheeled in the sky, calling plaintively.

Iain M. Banks

#5. Oh, Marigold!" Lymond spoke plaintively. "A silken tongue, a heart of cruelty. Don't berate us. We're only poor scoundrels - vagabonds - scraps of society; unlettered and untaught.

Dorothy Dunnett

#6. And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other.
"Why didn't you just ... fade?" Gaia demanded plaintively.
"You hit me," Nemesis said. It was a little boy's voice coming from Caine's mouth. "And that's not okay.

Michael Grant

#7. Now, where were we?" he said. "Oh, yes. We were about to have some honest conversation. Roadkill, are you in love with Hawk?"
Roadkill sighed and asked plaintively, "Can't we just go back to prison?

Agatha Bird

#8. She wasn't religious. She didn't believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

Graham Greene

#9. You know how everything seems so normal when you're growing up," she asked plaintively, "and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts?

Karen Joy Fowler

#10. Every time Salim saab comes to Bharatpur,' the Maharaja used to say plaintively, 'he takes two species off my menu.

Zafar Futehally

#11. plaintively. Ford

Douglas Adams

#12. You didn't have to rip my dress," she said plaintively when he let her breathe. "I love this one. Nellie worked on it for days." "I'm sorry, lass," he said somberly. " 'Twas an accident, lass. Sometimes I forget my strength. I mean to be gentle but it doesn't come out that way. Can you forgive me?

Karen Marie Moning

#13. the cow crossly shook her head and craned her neck, mooing plaintively, and beyond the black barns of Meliuzeievo the stars twinkled, and invisible threads of sympathy stretched between them and the cow as if there were cattle sheds in other worlds where she was pitied. Everything

Boris Pasternak

#14. I want to go home, Peeta," I say plaintively, like a small child. "You will. I promise," ...

Suzanne Collins

#15. I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

Hayao Miyazaki

#16. Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

Doug E. Fresh

#17. Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#18. Graymark," he said. "What a nice surprise." Luke stood up. "If you're surprised, you're an idiot," he said. "I didn't exactly arrive quietly.

Cassandra Clare

#19. I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

Andrew Wiles

#20. I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

Meister Eckhart

#21. Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

Rob Brydon

#22. Denial is for losers. Face your crap and move on. Otherwise you'll get old and depressed and turn into a scary pod person whose most pressing issue in life is when they get to trade in the can of Dr Pepper for the can of Bud.

Estelle Laure

#23. Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

Tommy Chong

#24. My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

Robin McLeavy

#25. The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#26. Our institutions and agencies are no longer working for us. It is time to reimagine the wilderness movement as a movement of direct action, time to reimagine our public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. Time to rethink what is acceptable and what is not.

Terry Tempest Williams

#27. I think being a little nuts is helpful.

Carter Burwell