Plover Quotes

#1. But as some muskets so contrive it
As oft to miss the mark they drive at,
And though well aimed at dock or plover
Bear wide, and kick their owners over.

John Trumbull

#2. Even on the first day we invaded Plover's house we sensed the conundrum that Americans are faced with in England: they're too frightened of English people to behave rudely to them, and too ignorant to know how to behave politely.

Lev Grossman

#3. Plover's words were like dried flowers, stiff and crumbling, crushed flat between pages, when we'd had the living, blooming blossoms all around

Lev Grossman

#4. In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.

Aldo Leopold

#5. I was the solitary plover
a pencil
for a wing-bone
From the secret notes
I must tilt
upon the pressure
execute and adjust
In us sea-air rhythm
We live by the urgent wave
of the verse

Lorine Niedecker

#6. Awkward passion is so often so very much more admirable than mere achievement.

Brian Doyle

#7. Hope was a luxury Melora could barely allow. It was more painful than sorrow, more hurtful than disappointment because it represented a potential: the potential for happiness. If only her happiness didn't depend so much on other people, she'd be fine.

Marie Zhuikov

#8. Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

Ted Nugent

#9. DEDICATED TO YOU:
I cannot believe you and I have come so far. Your book is not a goodbye, however-just another beginning.
But you're used to that ...

J.R. Ward

#10. I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

Nicolas Cage

#11. Don't know what to do in a world without mud and moss, brother.

Brian Doyle

#12. Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we'll never get to the bottom of either of them.

Brian Doyle

#13. My father used to say, "a day spent breathing is a good day

Raymond E. Feist

#14. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Marie Dressler

#15. If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

Diane Arbus

#16. There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

Clayton M Christensen

#17. He claimed he had read the book so many times that the words had fallen out of it and the pages were all blank so he had to read the book to put the words back in or the book would be forlorn and naked.

Brian Doyle