Plaques Quotes

#1. What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.

Craig Brown

#2. Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims.

Michael Greger

#3. That annoying thing that tourists did, opening a feed into London's sea of blue plaques.

William Gibson

#4. Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.

Hanya Yanagihara

#5. Even in my day there were five plaques at the top of the tomb, engraved with a written record of what each of these three groups had done, which prove, when the figures are added up, that the prostitutes made the greatest contribution.

Anonymous

#6. There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

Phyllis Schlafly

#7. I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Will Hobbs

#8. The end of the world revealed the futility of all commemorative plaques.

Tommy Wallach

#9. She almost thought she'd said the words aloud, but she hadn't. They remained trapped in her head, but not because they were barricaded by plaques and tangles. She just couldn't say them aloud

Lisa Genova

#10. I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

John Cameron

#11. If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

Jeff Shaara

#12. The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.

Judith Miller

#13. Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

Adele

#14. No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

Mary J. Blige

#15. Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

#17. Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

Vinnie Jones

#18. Healthy posture is based on natural positions that balance and support your skeletal system's curves and weight-bearing abilities against the force of gravity.

Cindy Ann Peterson

#19. All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Dean Inge