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If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.

John F. Kennedy

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Ayn Rand

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Thomas Moore

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

W. H. Auden

Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.

Frank Oz

A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.

Scott Mcclellan

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Christopher Lehmann haupt

We're here forever. We already bought our cemetery plot.

Robert Kessler

Instead, he killed people by lying and concealing the plot ... that resulted in the worst terrorist attack in the country's history.

David Akin

With the plot effectively beaten back, we can now get back on track.

Ignacio Bunye

He was born in Germantown, just outside of Memphis. There's a family plot there.

John Hammons

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

Clive Cussler

You cannot read my script and look at that movie, and not get that they took everything from it, ... I'm not saying that two people can't have a concept about a barbershop, but when you have the exact same characters, the exact same plot, that's going a little bit more than just having a general idea.

James Davis

Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

George Meredith

It started with the plot. What do you do on your day off? Of course you go to the moon. Why? Because you're out of cheese.

Peter Sallis

Not everybody is going to want a full plot. Some people just want to grow a couple of tomato plants.

Carrie Edgar

Each time a vineyard is passed along to the kids, it has to be divided up, ... Nobody has a large enough plot to make a living.

Kermit Lynch

If you plot the distribution of clusters, you discover that almost all of them are on one side of the sky, concentrated in the constellation Sagittarius in the summer sky.

Carlton Pryor

You can receive information about the broad outline of a specific plot and not have enough granularity to the information that allows for the type of follow-up that law enforcement can do.

Roger Cressey

I was allowed to film in the biggest mosque in India and when I told the imam the plot of the movie he started to laugh.

Albert Brooks

It would make a nice family plot. That's what he bought it for.

Willis Meisenheimer

There's a weak place in every plot, ladies and gentleman, (and) in this case, the weak place is the plot.

Mark Rylance

That would be just what Davis needs. There is nothing Gray Davis would like more than to be able to talk about the recall as a nefarious plot by out-of-state Republicans.

Dan Schnur

They're narrative films, but there's also something very experimental in the way that the narrative works. You sometimes watch one of these films and in the end you're like, what just happened? That was really funny, but I have no idea what just happened in the plot. I like that.

Dave Douglas

It's just manic. So many plot complications hit you from nowhere. They're just in there to make the plot complicated. The characters are actually caricatures.

Julie Gritton

In some cases, the ideal thing with organic gardening is to have more than one garden - one plot where you're adding compost and letting it rot and another where you're actually planting something. When you add too much compost into the garden and plant the same year, it might be difficult for the plants to grow the first year, as the compost decomposes.

Stuart Gauthier

The timing of this clearly has to do with politics … but that doesn't mean the [L.A. plot] isn't true.

Lorenzo Vidino

We actually plot the books together.

Paul Stewart

In my submissions, it has not been established by coherent, reliable or compelling evidence that (Fahima) was party to any plot to destroy a civil aircraft and murder its occupants.

Richard Keen

We've had this family plot since 1968 with a monument ready for him to come home.

Brenda Scott

It's no longer a matter of freedom of thought or opinion or belief. It's a plot hatched against Islam and Muslims, the preparation of which began many years ago.

Samir Ragab

We had some elderly people come down and [fellow resident] Tony went out and asked them 'what are you doing?' They replied, 'well, we're coming down to look at our plot.' We should have been notified first.

Paul Clarke

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Robert Purvis

(The) military has effectively crushed the plot but some people responsible for it are still out there.

Arturo Lomibao

This will help us plot the plan for the future of our generating facility. It is a critical need for our area.

Mayor Perry Barse

Everyone and everything winds up lost in this ... adaptation of Tolkien 's cult-inspiring trilogy of fantasy novels. That includes plot, character and the patience of most ordinary theatergoers.

Ben Brantley

Not to scare the people, but it is true that there is an assassination plot against the president.

Michael Defensor

We will be testing the machine for the last three KNRC events this year as we plot to win the 2006 season.

Brian Duncan

There's a plot in charrettes. There's the Thursday Night Massacre [when architects are forced to adjust to requirements they hadn't anticipated]. You pick yourself up. Eventually, you prevail.

Andres Duany

The aim is always to be in contention going into the new year, then it starts to heat up and that is when it gets to the boil. You work away and plot away just to make sure that you are in there.

Roy Coyle

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

George Villiers

This plot was foiled while it was still in the planning (stages).

Bill Hunt

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

Francis Quarles

We want to grow the idea of reading gardens across the country. Our aim is to inspire. We want people to see a neglected plot and envision a reading garden to improve the environment and lives.

Heidi Ketvertis

If the special use (zoning) only applied to one specific plot ... then it would be called spot zoning and could be attacked in court.

Barbara Meskunas

If there is standing corn or a food plot, that's a good place for deer to come and feed in the afternoon, and that would be a good place to hunt.

Willie Suchy

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Fran Townsend

We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain, they invest it with meaning. Not plot. Not character.

Joe Rohde

There was a plot. It was ended before it could be consummated.

John O'connor

We can't even plot it on a map.

Tessy Shirakawa

The embrace of plot has allowed something like the Oprah book club phenomenon to emerge.

Scott Turow

He lied so the plot could proceed unimpeded.

Rob Spencer

Much like 24, Prison Break is packed with multiple plot twists.

Peter Liguori

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

Gael Garcia Bernal

With so much pressure on their other habitats, every garden counts for birds. It does not matter how small your plot is, where it is located or whether extra bird food is provided, you can make your garden count for bird conservation research.

Mike Toms

Spielberg did not have a great plot to work with. The Tom Cruise character doesn't really change himself, and he really doesn't change the outcome of things. I really didn't like the movie. ... The stupid plot we had in Airplane! was better than that.

David Zucker

Jordan sounded like she had really lost the plot, and the only thing I can put it down to is hormones and wedding jitters.

Chelsea Johnson

I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.

Evan Hunter

No one will even know whether a greater focus ... would have lead to the unraveling of the September 11th plot.

Eleanor Hill

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.

Elizabeth George