Plume Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees.…
— Raymond Chandler
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When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a…
— Elif Batuman
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Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Bluefin tuna spawn just south of the oil spill and they spawn only in the Gulf. If they were to go through the area at…
— Larry J. McKinney
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Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all…
— George Eliot
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And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is…
— Dana Rohrabacher
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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
— John Milton
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode…
— Dorothy Parker
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She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One…
— Edmond Rostand
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Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.
— Libba Bray
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My gaze flew to him once more,noting the cigarette he set down even as he exhaled a long plume of white."Why are you lying there…
— Jeaniene Frost
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As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded…
— Buzz Aldrin
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Next time gonna use a nom de plume. One jump ahead of the hitman
— Aladdin
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In some of those dense fir andspruce woods there is hardly room for the smoke to go up. The trees are a standing night,and every…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Plume Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Plume Quotes as follows: