Martha Plimpton Quotes

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• We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • History
  • Look

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Always
  • Coffee
  • Breakfast

• I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rice

• Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • Choice
  • Old

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Single

• I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Hospital

• Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Party
  • Christian
  • Dog

• Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Support
  • Year
  • Cat

• I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • World
  • Love
  • Think

• I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Stand

• Characters - conventional women with minor eccentricities - flourished in our world, as Mrs. Cork had no doubt observed. But she'd failed to notice that the characters were all old, rich and pedigreed. Newcomers, especially those of moderate means, were expected to form an attractive but featureless chorus behind our few madcap divas.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Women
  • She

• The Sixties attempted a return to nature that ended in disaster.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature

• He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Lazy

• He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Worry

• From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Unknown

• The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Long
  • Air
  • Sea

• Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Society

• I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Scary

• We have messed-up lives, but we’re good people and we have grace. And even though we don’t have to do good for God to love us, I want to do good for Him.

  

  Lacey Mosley
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Enough
  • Invisible

• Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Pain
  • Human Beings
  • Hunger

• Actors, they come and go, you know.

  

  Martha Plimpton