Plunked Down Quotes

#1. Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!

Milton Berle

#2. I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

Robert Downey Jr.

#3. I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.

Erlend Loe

#4. The greater involution and deeper patina of her left tooth in comparison to the right, the skeptical cast

Michael Chabon

#5. These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness
unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.

Maureen Johnson

#6. Many thinkers worry over the progressive bureaucratization of the world and the social threat of its terror. Yet they forget that these very bureaucrats are themselves terrorized, and that they are terrorized by their desks. Once plunked down behind one, a man will never learn to tear himself free.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#7. Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

John Marsden

#8. I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

Barry Zito

#9. I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

Vernor Vinge

#11. She turned and plunked herself down on the padded webbing. "He's a little awkward, a little tongue-tied around women, and a man that fit and good-looking without a girlfriend?

Barbara Dunlop

#12. It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

Helen Caldicott

#13. A man with no imaginations has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

#14. She sort of had a mushroom childhood.'
'A what?'
'She was plunked down in the dark and fed a lot of bullshit.

Dana Marie Bell

#15. They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

Nick Simmons

#16. I am not the lonely human, plunked down on earth to aimlessly wander. I am a part of that earth and not going anywhere- just like the spider up in the corner, the dust on the sill, and the cat I buried in the backyard. -Jamaica Ritcher.

Jay Allison

#17. In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

Karen Armstrong

#18. Donald Trump = 9/11 cover-up conspirator.

David Howard

#19. An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

B.F. Skinner

#20. I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

John Mulaney