William Plomer Quotes

#1. I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

Larry Page

#2. To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

William Plomer

#3. When you know who you are, you won't have false modesty

Sunday Adelaja

#4. The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

William Plomer

#5. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

#6. The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of less is more.

Darynda Jones

#7. Nick's lips twitched. "How long did you practice that before you came out here?" "About an hour," Kelly answered, breaking into a smile. "Was it good? How'd I do?" Nick nodded. "It was good.

Abigail Roux

#8. In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.

Bernie Sanders

#9. In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults.

Adora Svitak

#10. If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

Bootsy Collins

#11. Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

William Plomer

#12. I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.

Michael Gove