Shapings Platino Quotes

#1. When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

Edward Abbey

#2. You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

Jay Maisel

#3. It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red. It was taken to pieces, like a toy-puzzle for a young Devil, and was put together again when the occasion wanted it.

Charles Dickens

#4. Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

Murray Gell-Mann

#5. It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

Murray Kempton

#6. 11 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Anonymous

#7. Next one hundred years we are history

Tasleem Khan

#8. It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

Nathan Lane