Top 176 Plotting Quotes & Sayings

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence.

My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.

About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it. Hours went into the plotting of graphs... When the graphs were finished, the relations were obvious at once, but the plotting had to be done in order to make them so.

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.

I bloody love transport and plotting a route through London.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.

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.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

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.

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.

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.

...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

I'm a guy who's been around this sport on the outside looking in, seeing, watching, scheming, plotting and planning his next big move.

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.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.

I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall.

Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.

Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

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

My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans.

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

I jump around in the plotting stage, where I basically just make a bulleted list of every damn thing that happens in the entire book.

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

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.

I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.

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.

The idea I'd been toying with fully formed in my mind. "I'm plotting." "oh?" His mouth curved in a wicked grin. "Do Tell." Chapter 5 pg. 50

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

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.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

I know that there are scores of people plotting to kill me, and this is not difficult to understand. After all, did we not seize power by plotting against our predecessors? However, I am far cleverer than they are. I know they are conspiring to kill me long before they actually start planning to do it. This enables me to get them before they have the faintest chance of striking at me.

The first scene I shot on The Originals was the one with Phoebe, Charles (Michael Davis), and Andy Lees when we are plotting our plan and surveying the map and plotting our grand "break in." It was a relatively light scene which was nice because I was able to warm up a bit and get comfortable with being around the new crew. They were all very kind and helpful and I felt pretty at home after a few takes.

I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting.

It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that's plotting an attack directly on American soil.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

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.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

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.

There's a clean simplicity to the plotting of 'Sinister,' whether you like it or not. And the scares are deliberate and even heavy-handed in a way. There's not a lot of sophistication or nuance in the plotting and not much restraint in the scares - and that's a part of what makes the movie accessible.

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

You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.

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

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.