William George Plunkett Quotes

#1. I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.

Alison Brie

#2. I do not approve of naval historians who seek out flaws in the losers' battle plans and tactics. The way to profit from history is to put oneself in the shoes of the tactical decision maker as he confronts a many-faceted problem in an atmosphere of uncertainty.

Wayne Hughes

#3. Cause what do groanhuffs know? All's they've done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers, getting em all mixed up, like.

Hal Duncan

#4. The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

Edwin Muir

#5. After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame

#6. The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Aldous Huxley

#7. On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.

V.S. Naipaul

#8. Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

Victor Davis Hanson

#9. People will come and go as they are scheduled to. Let them. Holding on does not affect them, only you.

Brianna Wiest

#10. Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Adrian McKinty

#11. I'm an Igor, thur. We don't athk quethtionth."
"Really? Why not?"
"I don't know, thur. I didn't athk.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Filming a drama is something which you can't tear yourself away.

Joo Won

#13. we are living in an interdependent world where what our children hear, see, feel, and learn will affect how they grow up and who they turn out to be.

Hillary Rodham Clinton