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

• Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Art

• 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

• For me, depression is very much tied to my feeling that so much is being asked of me. I have to 'perform' rather than necessarily be myself. I have to perform a perfect Margo Jefferson, at an impossibly high level.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

• For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Time
  • Long
  • College

• There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

  

  James Patterson
  • Writing
  • Practice
  • Collaboration

• Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

  

  Confucius
  • Laws
  • Rule
  • Sings

• Keep always in mind the rule of faith which I profess and by which I bear witness that the Father and the Son and the Spirit are inseparable from each other, and then you will understand what is meant by it. Observe now that I say the Father is other distinct, the Son is other, and the Spirit is other. This statement is wrongly understood by every uneducated or perversely disposed individual, as if it meant diversity and implied by that diversity a separation of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

  

  Tertullian
  • Diversity
  • Rule
  • Understood

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

  

  George W. Plunkitt
  • Practice
  • Rule
  • Tongues