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Quotes About Plotting

Depends. (Adron) On? (Livia) Whether or not they're plotting against you. Taryn's like a head injury. It's only funny when it happens to someone else. And Tiernan…I think there's now a hurricane on Chrinon VI named after him. (Adron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad. That's part of the creative exploration.
~ Kevin Reilly
How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets?
~ Michael Moore
She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't know how, and she didn't know when, but at least she had one person she could count on to help her carry it out. Together, they were going to make it happen. Even if it killed her.
~ Sara Shepard
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
The mind convicts itself in advance, when scoundrels are up to no good, plotting in the dark. Oh but I hate it more when a traitor, caught red-handed, tries to glorify his crimes.
~ Sophocles
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
In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.
~ John Piper
the story of Ruth . . .was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.
~ John Piper
Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.
~ Barry Lyga
My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.
~ Clive Cussler
Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
~ Vicki Lawrence
Tinker Bell needs a Tinker Bell. She needs someone plotting for her. I certainly think that it's something she wants.
~ Rose McIver
Don't you like surprises?' No, Frances didn't like surprises. She hated the thought of people plotting and planning on her behalf. She loathed the burden of being delighted once the surprise was disclosed.
~ Sarah Waters
I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck. There can be no other explanation.
~ Sarra Manning
Well, it certainly is nice to be free from the threat of that lamp, my boy." Chains drew a last breath of smoke, then rubbed his dwindling sheaf of tobacco out against the roof stones. "Was it informing for the duke? Plotting to murder us?
~ Scott Lynch
A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found. But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity. The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them; but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming. (Ps. 37:10–13 NIV)
~ Scotty Smith
I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.
~ David Selby
His eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife.
~ Arundhati Roy
Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.
~ Stephen King
Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however…that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.
~ Stephen King
Of course, the writer can impose control; It's just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called plotting. Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however... that is called storytelling. Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.
~ Stephen King
Well, she may think it was her idea, but I'd been looking for an excuse to get you back all winter.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Tigerstar." Mistyfoot shivered. "He visits Leopardstar regularly, and I can't work out why. I'm sure they're planning something.
~ Erin Hunter