Ploeg Quotes

#1. My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Elvis Costello

#2. It was like seeing the slides at the optometrist, when you didn't even realize how blurry something was until you got to see the clearer version, and you could see what had been obscured before.

Morgan Matson

#3. Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

Peter Lynch

#4. People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

Rob Huebel

#5. When we heard those shots and he saw Ploeg lying in front of the house, what he said was, 'My God, the lizards!'
With wide-eyed disbelief Anton looked out over her head.

Harry Mulisch

#6. It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

Rosanna Arquette

#7. Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.

John Edward Williams

#8. Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

Bob Monkhouse

#9. The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Robert Musil

#11. Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.

Beau Mirchoff

#12. Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible.

Steve Nash