Plots Quotations

Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.

There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes - extravagant treats that aren't as calorie-laden when we're wearing flip flops.

No prime agricultural land will be provided for setting up industries. As the demand (of Salim Group) is 5,000 acres some small plots of agricultural land could come in that. The farmers, whose land is acquired would be properly compensated.

There are only so many stories in the world... Duplication of plots is bound to happen because most writers have read very extensively in their genre and have become aware they are adding an extra layer to the meta-narrative, finding a new spin on the original.

There are organized plots and plans to get you one way or the other. But every once in a while someone gets trapped. We always assume our players are not guilty of any major problem until someone really clarifies it for us.

I (could) see these plots a mile away. And I was 7.

Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are so ingrained in our society we rarely stop to think about it. I'm able to write what I want--dark fiendish plots without fear. . . . I can criticize the FBI, the CIA, the president and Congress without giving it a thought.

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.

We've gone from being able to observe and analyze 100 square-kilometer (62 square-mile) plots in the past down to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) and even 1 kilometer (0.62 mile). The clarity of the picture we're getting is analogous to a digital photograph becoming clearer as the pixels get smaller.

We've gone from being able to observe and analyze 100 square kilometer plots in the past down to 10 kilometers and even 1 kilometer. The clarity of the picture we're getting is analogous to a digital photograph becoming clearer as the pixels get smaller.

I absolutely adore writing books with paranormal elements - and I love creating the often-complex worlds and/or plots that go along with those stories - but at the heart of all of that ,you have the characters, and when you get down to the core of it, it's spending the time with the characters that is what I truly love.

We make our own compost at each garden and are very generous with this on the plots. This provides rich, organic matter that enriches the dirt, and mulch is added on top to protect the plots from hot and cold temperatures, as well as deterring weeds.

I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.

If we make people think they are approved plots of land, then people might go out there to look at it.

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.

People make the great mistake with action heroes. They think that because generally the plots are simpler and their behavior is one-note that they can't act. But most of the time they can.

My parents bought four plots right away when they went up for sale about 30 years ago. They wanted to insure that the plots would be available. It meant a lot to my mother.

time and again uncovered plots that are chilling.

Utter the name of God; it acts like a spark, which can burn into ash a big hill of cotton! All evil thoughts, wicked plans and plots will disappear like fog before the Sun when the Name of God is remembered sincerely.

We are confident Congress will ultimately send the president a bill that does not undermine the ability of investigators and prosecutors to disrupt terrorist plots and combat terrorism effectively.

The regional plots that pushed some Kurdish parties against other Kurdish parties are about to come to an end.

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

As I continue to write as M. O'Keefe, I find myself following darker story lines. Plots I might have flinched away from I now rush toward. Using sex as a tool to tell women's stories is endlessly fascinating.

To her, ... celebrities at the party were not movie stars but the actual characters they'd played. Unfortunately, these movies had overlapped in her mind -- to the extent that she'd merged the plots of several different films into one incomprehensible epic. ...

I used to be the fastest telegram messenger boy in all Fresno. My nickname was "Speed." Finally, I said, "Take back your nickname. This pace is killing me." Anyway, I still write fast -- it's my impatient Armenian nature. I'm keen to find out how my plots end, and if I write faster I'll find out sooner.

I urge the believers not to attack innocent civilians and not to fall for American plots that aim to divide us, ... We are passing through a critical period and a political process.

I urge the believers not to attack innocent civilians and not to fall for American plots that aim to divide us, ... We are passing through a critical period and a political process.

As the ball penetrates each wall, it fixes a point and plots that against the next point. It determines in a 4-foot range how fast the ball is going, the trajectory of the ball, and somewhat the curvature of the ball. It's very accurate, and I would consider it to be a consistent machine.

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.

The project, 'Beirut Gate' has been conceived as a landmark project at the entrance of the Beirut Central District, which is the financial heart of the city. The project comprises seven plots on a total foot-print area of 229,871 square feet and a built-up area of almost 1.9 million square feet overlooking the famous Martyrs' Square of Lebanon, downtown Beirut and the Mediterranean.

The rhododendrons, plots of wild strawberries, flame azaleas, Solomon's seal, sweet shrub, mountain laurel, ginseng, Fraser magnolia...create a seemingly infinite green tapestry that surrounds the trail.

We also go throughout the area and plant small stands of milo that they can feed on as they scatter. There's a lot of work involved in doing that. It's 200 plots (each about a half-acre to an acre) spread all over this place.

But the information that there were plots under way that might relate to the pre-election period came from multiple sources, and active multiple sources.

Now instead of a contractor calling each individual utility, the contractor, when they obtain their permits, will call the Hawaii One Call Center and the One Call Center will send this email complete with diagrams and plots of the area to be excavated.

They were given to me voluntarily. I don't have plans and plots against the government.

I'm not like Jonathan Hickman, who's able to sort of plot out three years of a book ahead of time. I'm much more of a guy who plots out an arc or two at a time.

It's our understanding now that it was too difficult to get enough operatives for both the East and West Coast plots at the same time.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.

The brome grass is going to provide OK cover early in the season. You could see, though, that all the snow had knocked it down. We hunted some weedy food plots that stood up well.

The difference is a community takes it to the next level and adds additional payments on top of what the regular PLOTS payment would provide.

It was bin Laden who decided that it should just focus on the East Coast, and that the West Coast should be held in abeyance ... as a follow-on attack. It's our understanding now that it was too difficult to get enough operatives for both the East and West Coast plots at the same time.

It's a story you've never heard before, which is saying something because most plots are so hackneyed now. It's unlike anything you've ever seen.

The Department of Homeland Security raises the alert status for financial centers in New York, New Jersey, and Washington to orange. The evidence supporting the warning, reconnaissance data left in a home in Iraq, later proves to be roughly four years old and largely out of date. Number 10. Last Thursday, at 10 a.m. Eastern time, the President addresses the National Endowment for Democracy, once again emphasizing the importance of the war on terror, and insisting his government has broken up at least 10 terrorist plots since 9/11. At 3 p.m. Eastern time, five hours after the President's speech has begun, the Associated Press reports that Karl Rove will testify again to the CIA leak grand jury and that special prosecutor Fitzgerald has told Rove he cannot guarantee that he will not be indicted.

The alumni buried me every week. The plots have a view of the dome. It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.