Plank Quotes

40 quotes by 40 authors

Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings,… — Edward Alsworth Ross
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,… — Mark Helprin
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and… — Albert Einstein
So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it,… — Lightnin' Hopkins
I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally… — Jeff Beck
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe. — Harry Dean Stanton
A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a… — Graham Coxon
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based… — Errico Malatesta
Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then… — George Nakashima
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. — Thomas Gibbons
I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on… — Charles Spurgeon
No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak,… — Baron de Montesquieu
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to… — Adolf Hitler
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to… — George Will
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded… — David R. Brower
I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. — Ani DiFranco
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when… — Andrew Solomon
Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting… — Edwin Arnold
I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think… — Ellen DeGeneres
I'm as thick as a plank. — Princess Diana

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