John H. Plumb Quotes

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

John H. Plumb

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• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Work
  • Important
  • Single

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Jewish

• There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Sunshine

• Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Country
  • Moving

• I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Technology
  • Trump
  • Ignorance

• I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fire
  • Communication
  • Dead

• I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Career
  • Fashion
  • Chances

• My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Man
  • Rest
  • Name

• There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Team
  • Always

• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hearts
  • Big
  • July

• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Exercise
  • Motherhood
  • Guilt

• But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

  

  bell hooks

• If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Should
  • Driving
  • Going

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Music
  • Men
  • Love

• Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Knowledge
  • Animal
  • Belief

• The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

  

  John H. Plumb
  • History
  • Past
  • Authority