Plucke Quotes

#1. I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.

Elizabeth I

#2. I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.

Andy Partridge

#3. When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Charles Bukowski

#6. A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. But three cheers for Alaska, they've got 24-hour hot fucking bear delivery.
Note to self: Nuke Alaska.

Mykle Hansen

#8. Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

Paulo Coelho

#9. We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.

Meg Waite Clayton

#10. Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.

Yasunari Kawabata

#11. I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move.

Claire Denis

#12. It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

Lori Singer

#13. Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#14. The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

Edwin Howard Armstrong