Plover's Quotes

#1. 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

#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. Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

David Niven

#4. If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Lucretia Mott

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

Brian Doyle

#6. 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

#7. Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Simon Travaglia

#8. 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

#9. When I was eight years old, or I may have been younger, my aunt picked me up and threw me in the pool and I didn't know how to swim. It was like, "Conquer your fear and just get on with it." It must have made an impact on me.

Charisma Carpenter

#10. Perhaps it is as simple as Hannah's sister is marrying one of the few men in the world I call friend." His gaze strayed to where Joley stood rigid against the wall. "Or perhaps I wanted to see, one more time, whether the reason I can no longer sleep at night is worth it.

Christine Feehan

#11. But live while you live, tomorrow you die ...

Leo Tolstoy

#12. It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

Maxwell Maltz

#13. First he accuses me of trying to do the right thing, and now he tells me he trusts me. What am I, a fucking priestess?

A.F.E. Smith

#14. A society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

Dan Simmons

#15. intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and

George Orwell

#16. 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

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

Brian Doyle

#18. 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

#19. Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

Jack Vance

#20. 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

#21. I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.

Jason Lee

#22. Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

Anamika Mishra

#23. 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