Plunked 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. As I move along the line, other food items are plunked onto my tray: a small salad of iceberg lettuce and bacos, a slice of white bread with a pat of Hotel Holiday butter and blob of red Jell-O with fruit cocktail trapped inside. Instantly, I feel compassion for the trapped fruit.

Augusten Burroughs

#3. I took a step back.
"Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.

Elizabeth Chandler

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

Vernor Vinge

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

Christopher McDougall

#9. 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

#10. My Angel, goddess of my heart, you are beautiful.

Jaimey Grant

#11. Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,

Ron Paul

#12. I lived job-to-job before 'Magic Mike.' It certainly has meant a lot to me from a financial standpoint.

Reid Carolin

#13. In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Oliver Goldsmith

#14. I'm going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

Joseph Haydn

#15. Breakfast with the Borgias.

Agatha Christie

#16. That's what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

Stefanos Livos

#17. It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.

Ann Brashares

#18. Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God ... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Robert Baden-Powell

#19. The situation has gone so far past the point of insanity it's come around and become mundane again.

C.T. Phipps