Platform Quotes
388 quotes by 341 authors
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Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational…
— J D Salinger
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The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.
— Anthony Horowitz
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A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the…
— George Orwell
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Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.
— Yasmina Khadra
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I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?" "You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far…
— Cassandra Clare
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
— Seth Godin
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And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you…
— Melina Marchetta
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I’m going to lie this one right on the line, right here, right now: I’m pro big pants. Strident feminism NEEDS big pants. Really big.…
— Caitlin Moran
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I saw that she was crying. Before I knew it, I was kissing her. Others on the platform were staring at us, but I didn't…
— Haruki Murakami
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A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She…
— Libba Bray
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Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated…
— Kate Atkinson
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There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt.…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a…
— Joan Baez
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God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might…
— Sam Storms
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What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every…
— W. Edwards Deming
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As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and…
— Bhakti Charu Swami
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We could not have launched Causes without Facebook Platform, providing real identity and real friends. Facebook Platform was created so that experiences that are inherently…
— Joe Green
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I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were…
— Jeff Koons
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Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends…
— Mark Cuban
Who Wrote These Platform Quotes
341 authors contributed a total of 388 Platform Quotes, led by these top contributors: