Plank Challenge Quotes

#1. Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

John Dryden

#2. You always pass failure on your way to success.

Mickey Rooney

#3. The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

Simon Pegg

#4. Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.

John Chrysostom

#5. A conclusion I've come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it's really about making work into something that isn't drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.

Tom Hodgkinson

#6. We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

Jerry Bridges

#7. Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

Anne Lamott

#8. I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

William Shakespeare

#9. Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

Clive Thompson

#10. I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

Michael Schur

#11. After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.

Gore Vidal

#12. Jennie had a big smile on her face. Next thing I knew there was a puddle on

Judy Blume