Top 88 Plank Quotes
#1. I don't have a gym membership. I usually do a bit of basic yoga or stretches at home or in my dressing room before the show. I've done plank for 60 seconds almost every day since 2009, when I had to wear a bikini onstage in 'South Pacific.'
Laura Osnes
#2. My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
James Longstreet
#3. There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.
Thomas Gibbons
#4. Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.
Edwin Arnold
#5. Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
Harry Dean Stanton
#6. I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet [in Titanic] sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that, I think.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#7. Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.
George Nakashima
#8. Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.
Laurence Sterne
#9. When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.
Bob Newhart
#10. Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
Blaise Pascal
#11. What if we both can't win?" "I've already told you what happens then." "What?" "I give you the plank, Karissa." It takes a moment for her to understand. The Plank of Carneades.
J.M. Darhower
#12. I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.
Bob Johnson
#13. Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must enter those jaws.
Robin Hobb
#14. He's not safe. He's the shark-infested deep end of the sea and if I agree to go out with him, I'd be walking the plank, right off the boat and into his dark depth. How am I supposed to do that when I don't even know if I can swim?
Colleen Hoover
#15. Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.
Alexandre Dumas
#16. My go-to prebikini flat-ab move is the plank, all different types.
Julianne Hough
#17. A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.
Graham Coxon
#18. As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog.
Gary Delaney
#19. If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the sunken night sky, closed its heavy eyes. The prehistoric ant in Yankel's ring, which had lain motionless in the honey-colored amber since long before Noah hammered the first plank, hid its head between its many legs, in shame.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#21. There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.
Dan Harris
#22. I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
Aaron Sorkin
#23. When will man learn what was taught to him of old, that faith is the only plank wherewith he can float upon this sea and that his miserable works avail him nothing.
H. Rider Haggard
#24. You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
Malcolm McDowell
#25. Thank you, Dr. Phil, for that fine psychological assessment," I snapped and motioned my chin to Disco. "Why don't you and Oprah here go take a long walk off a short plank and do the world a favor?
J.A. Saare
#27. Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.
George Will
#29. I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.
Jeff Beck
#30. Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
Karen DeCrow
#32. As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave ... walking the plank ... willingly ... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
Morrissey
#33. The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
Billy Sunday
#34. As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.
Arundhati Roy
#35. I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.
Ani DiFranco
#36. Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put on my tights first, and right when I'm about to put on my costume, I get down on the floor, and I plank.
David Hallberg
#37. I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch, - This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.
Emily Dickinson
#38. It's stupid to be that way, so easily hurt; it's better to be like a plank of wood, an emotional mule. It's best not to feel, ... best to have your nerve endings cauterized.
Sonya Hartnett
#39. The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
Edward Young
#40. I think that's what Reverend Simmons would call fixating on the speck in your neighbor's eye while ignoring the fucking plank in your own." "Reverend
Nicole Williams
#41. The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.
Adolf Hitler
#43. You called me," I whispered.
"And you came," Jesse Holms answered, a green-eyed glance back at me, a half smile that dissolved my bones. Then we were moving hand in hand down the rotting plank stairs.
Shana Abe
#44. How extraordinary," she exclaimed as the horses "raced" across the plank.
Rose Gordon
#45. I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.
Charles Spurgeon
#47. Piper drew her dagger. Jason grabbed an ice-covered plank off the pool floor. Leo reached into his tool belt, but he was so shaken up, all he produced was a tin of breath mints. He shoved them back in, hoping nobody had noticed, and drew a hammer instead.
Rick Riordan
#48. I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
David R. Brower
#49. Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.
Chet Raymo
#50. Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,
At most seven inches from the jaws of death.
Juvenal
#51. Plank to base. I require urgent backup. Repeat. Urgent backup. Am knackered. Repeat. Knackered. And can you pick me up a bag of ready salted crisps on the way? Repeat. Ready salted crisps. Urgent. Over.
David Walliams
#52. Long have you timidly waded
Holding a plank by the shore,
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
To jump off in the midst of the sea,
Rise again, nod to me, shout,
And laughingly dash with your hair.
Walt Whitman
#53. I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
Ellen DeGeneres
#55. Oh, they have just a bully time - take ships and burn them, and get the money and bury it in awful places in their island where there's ghosts and things to watch it, and kill everybody in the ships - make 'em walk a plank.
Mark Twain
#56. Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.
Robert Burns
#57. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to plank in your own eye?"-Matthew 7:3
Anonymous
#58. When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'
Kevin Plank
#59. I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
Eddie Plank
#60. I'm usually a pretty intense person. Give me an inch, and I'm going to go.
Kevin Plank
#61. Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!
Kevin Plank
#63. I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.
Kevin Plank
#64. I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.
Kevin Plank
#65. It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.
Kevin Plank
#66. I wanted to make the world's greatest football undershirt. But I realized that no team sport had equipment for apparel. Apparel was an afterthought.
Kevin Plank
#67. My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.
Kevin Plank
#68. Where can we take no the product, but the idea?
Kevin Plank
#69. One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.
Kevin Plank
#70. All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.
Kevin Plank
#71. As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.
Kevin Plank
#72. We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.
Kevin Plank
#73. I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don't have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.
Kevin Plank
#75. There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
Eddie Plank
#76. Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
Doug Plank
#77. Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.
Kevin Plank
#78. You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.
Kevin Plank
#79. Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
Kevin Plank
#80. My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.
Kevin Plank
#81. Removing one task can free up a couple of minutes of free time, every day... which turns into hours or days every year. Time
Robert Plank
#82. I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
Kevin Plank
#83. You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.
Kevin Plank
#84. Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads?
Kevin Plank
#85. The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
Kevin Plank
#86. I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.
Kevin Plank
#87. Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.
Kevin Plank
#88. Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.
Kevin Plank
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