George W. Plunkitt Quotes

The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them.

George W. Plunkitt

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• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • American
  • Think
  • Chicago

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • American
  • Change
  • Agent

• There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Weak

• Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Chance
  • Try
  • Risks

• You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

  

  Ed Harris
  • City
  • Day
  • Sleep

• In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • Up
  • American
  • Culture

• I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Saying

• When they write a bad review, and you agree with it, that's the worst feeling. When you know you've done what you wanted and the best you could and you love the outcome, then you look at everything differently. Not everyone's going to love everything you do.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Music
  • American
  • Success

• Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • God
  • Writing
  • Universe

• I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once.

  

  Margarita Levieva
  • Dance
  • Bird

• When Calista Flockhart read for 'Ally McBeal', I saw this perfect chemistry between the words on the page and the person who would embody that character.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Character
  • Words
  • Perfect

• The bottom line is that the impacts of climate change can exacerbate resource competition, threaten livelihoods, and increase the risk of instability and conflict, especially in places already undergoing economic, political, and social stress.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • Political
  • Risk
  • Competition

• For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Know
  • Ambition

• I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.

  

  Kathe Koja
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Author

• The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Book

• The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them.

  

  George W. Plunkitt
  • Practice
  • Rule
  • Tongues