Plenty Quotes

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.