Plotting Quotes

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger

Happy, Paranoid, Suspect

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Kurt Huber

Freedom, Law, High

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Richard M. Nixon

War, Working, Fighting

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi

Death, Fear, Thought

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
Jodi Picoult

Dreams, Family, Gay

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
James Dyson

Problems, Engineer, Solve

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.
Darren Criss

Fall, Goals, Answer

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
Brad Thor

Character, True, End

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
Aishwarya Rai

Movies, Job, Career

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Simon Callow

Big, Fact, Influence

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
George Stephen

Writing, Thought, Pretty

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.
Dean Rusk

While, Sleeping

We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful... you never know what someone's plotting and planning.
Jermaine Jackson

Love, Someone, Him

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
Patrick Marber

Life, True, Play

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
Elizabeth George

End, Writing, Before

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.
Robbie Fowler

Life, Two, Perfect

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.
William Landay

Nature, Happens, Head

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.
Hume Cronyn

Greatest, Point, Plan

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
Jenny Frost

Life, Game, Heaven

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.
Clifford Irving

Trouble, Committee, Accused

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.
Sandra Brown

Love, Character, Real

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