Plumbed Quotes

#1. I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.

John Biggins

#2. I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

Hal Linden

#3. The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Every time I think my family has plumbed the depths of stupidity, somebody goes and finds a goddamn shovel." - Jane Harrington-Price

Seanan McGuire

#5. One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

Elisabeth Elliot

#6. Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work ... where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

Agatha Christie

#7. I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Georges Bidault

#8. I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.

Craig Johnson

#9. I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

James Turrell

#10. I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

Bill Keller

#12. But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.

Catherynne M Valente

#13. The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

John Green

#15. Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

Heather Bixler

#16. I've always been a stubble man; I don't do clean-shaven.

Jonas Armstrong

#17. For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#18. Poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew.

Sara Gruen

#19. If you share your pans with no one, no one can betray you.

George R R Martin

#20. Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked what I wanted to do with the moon (lune).

Jean-Dominique Bauby