Pluperfect Indicative Quotes

#1. As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.

Frederick Lenz

#2. I have become one of those brittle, busy people who emerge from suffering like a tornado, turning so fast that we do not even realize how much self-destruction we're causing. The

Jodi Picoult

#3. Because we tend to equate intelligence with language
particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions
it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

Linda Bender

#4. If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

Zac Efron

#5. There are some strange unrecognized forms of prostitution with which prostitution itself is an honest trade: at least you get something for your money.

Heinrich Boll

#6. I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

Lisa Yuskavage

#7. So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

Mika Waltari

#8. The phrase "low and slow" was coined to describe the relatively low temperatures used for smoking and the lengthy amount of time it takes to infuse and cook the food.

Ted Reader

#9. My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.

Jeanne Moreau

#10. Call the priest. You're in a better mood when he's around. He doesn't brood like you do." "He invented brooding. He holds the patent on brooding. He gets royalties whenever anyone broods. You just haven't seen him do it yet.

Tiffany Reisz

#11. The tense of the body is the present indicative; but the soul has a memory and a present and a future. I have conceived some extremely recondite pains for Mr. Trellis. I will pierce him with a pluperfect.

Flann O'Brien