Plunked Down Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

B.F. Skinner

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

David Howard

#8. 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

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

Nick Simmons

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

Muhammad Ali

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Vernor Vinge

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

John Marsden

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

Michael Chabon

#18. 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

#19. 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.

#20. 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