Plenty Quotes - Page 35

• I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

  Walter Alston

  Games, Knowing, Pitcher

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• I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

  Larry McMurtry

  Mistake, Careers, People

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Cadillac Jack: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

  Ransom Riggs

  Care, Easy, Don't Care

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.55, Quirk Books

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• There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

  Clayton Christensen

  Successful, Careers, Path

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• I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

  Martin McDonagh

  Smart, Directors, Film

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• For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.

  Martin Bashir

  Sports, Winter, Night

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• We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Ideas, Proud, Fractions

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• Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

  Christine McVie

  Writing, Rooms, Floating

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• Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Block, Spices, Heat

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for roasted rhubarb with sweet labneh, plus halibut and harissa stew with lemon ricotta" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

  John Burdett

  People, Challenges, Stressed

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• A timely, interesting, educational approach to today's wine picture. Wine still makes a feast out of a meal, but in times of not so plenty we will enjoy a bottle that is more reasonable. This tome is a must-read for wine lovers as well as the trade.

  Margrit Mondavi

  Educational, Wine, Interesting

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• It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

  C. L. R. James

  Taken, Years, Abolition Of Slavery

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• I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

  Miguel

  Mean, Artist, Ethnicity

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• May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

  Heraclitus

  Men, Order, Evil

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• Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

  Josh Billings

  Fall, Rivers, Floating

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• [Electronic newspapers will bring] plenty of ulcers for journalists because they'll have new deadlines every 60 seconds. It'll be a race to file. On the other hand, because space is infinite there will hopefully be more room for thoughtful pieces, longer pieces, the kind that a journalist wishes he or she could do but doesn't have the space.

  Russ Wilcox

  Thoughtful, Race, Hands

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.

  Mose Allison

  Cds, Needs, Buying

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

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• Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Purpose, Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.238

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• Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

  Washington Irving

  Native American, Eye, Garden

  "Traits of Indian character". Book by Washington Irving, 1819.

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• In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

  James Howell

  Adversity, Twenties, Prosperity

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• The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Home, Clothes, Shelter

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2002). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”

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• There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.

  Paul Klee

  Music, Art, Learning

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• The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

  Will Cuppy

  Tunnels, Land, Relax

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• Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Biblical, Opposites, Ideas

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• As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Creativity, Successful

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