Plumb Quotes

27 Plumb quotes by 22 unique authors

When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us… — Umberto Eco
Now remember: When things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb mad-dog mean.… — Josey Wales
The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the… — Timothy Keller
Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths. — Menno Simons
Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell… — Carl Sagan
That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in… — Ramona Koval
"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an… — Umberto Eco
Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I… — Walt Whitman
Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and… — John Wanamaker
We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes… — Michel de Montaigne
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its… — Peter Zumthor
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular… — Antonin Scalia
Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine… — Gail Collins
Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from… — Ken Kesey
Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It… — George MacDonald
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do… — Parker J. Palmer
I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what… — Janet Evanovich
Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and… — Walt Whitman
Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as… — Robert E. Howard
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from… — Ken Kesey
who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his… — C.S. Lewis
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be… — George MacDonald
At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals… — Charles Platt
You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil — Rudyard Kipling

Who Wrote These Plumb Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 27 Plumb Quotes as follows: