Platen Quotes

#1. Writing. It's a trivial pursuit, hardly worth the effort, inconsequential on any cosmic level. It's just blood and sweat and guts and bone hauled out of our bodies and fed through a typewriter to slosh all over the platen.

Kim Newman

#2. At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

Sean Parker

#3. As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

Ben Stein

#4. A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

Edwin Lutyens

#5. True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.

August Von Platen-Hallermunde

#6. I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#7. He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.

Plato

#8. I'd really like to find out if the queen burps or trumps.

Suzanne Shaw

#9. That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 year old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.

Jack LaLanne