Pluperfect Quotes

#1. This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect.

Samuel Beckett

#2. A woman gets into a taxi in Boston's Logan airport and asks the driver, 'Can you take me somplace where I can get scrod?' He says, 'Gee, that's the first time I've heard it in the pluperfect subjunctive.

Steven Pinker

#3. Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

J.M. Barrie

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. But enough already of what grammarians will recognize as the third conditional: if + pluperfect + would.

Nick Hornby

#7. Finding a sponsor is the toughest part of racing, tougher than driving.

Shawna Robinson

#8. Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#9. Was your old man in the war?"
"He was in the air force. He built runways."
"The fucking air farce. He ever tell you about it? Did he live?"
"Yes, he lived. He spoke once about Vietnam."
"If he only spoke about it once, he wasn't lying.

Anthony Swofford

#10. We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.

Paula Gunn Allen

#11. Receiving involves feeling the way you feel once your desire has manifested.

Rhonda Byrne

#12. I am trying to move forward with my life.

Kim Mathers

#13. I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?

Camryn Manheim

#14. Underwriting, an odious but not illegal practice. When a claim

John Grisham

#15. When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

Curtis Jackson

#16. The subtle hues of gold and yellow and the fresh greens and the pepper red seemed to spiral into a kaleidoscope of shapes and forms that made the tips of a person's toes tingle, so that some were inclined to remove their shoes in its presence.

Jeffry R. Halverson

#17. Shame, shame, shame - that is the history of the human!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

Joel Salatin

#19. The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Frank Luntz