Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise… — John Stamos
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. — Ben Stiller
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up. — Alex Tabarrok
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's… — Rufus Wainwright
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the… — Horace Walpole
I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important. — Len Wein
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to… — Betty White
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. — Zhang Yimou
I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk… — David Zucker
I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there… — Anne Graham Lotz
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your… — Maya Angelou
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has… — Terry Pratchett
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was… — Cecily von Ziegesar
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie). — Connie Willis
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught… — Gustave Flaubert
My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot. — Ashleigh Brilliant
To plot is to live. [â€¦] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… — Don DeLillo

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