Plunges Quotes

We will award prizes for the Best Costume and Best Jump.... We will recognize the oldest and youngest jumpers as well as those who have traveled the farthest, have the most interesting stories and who are repeat jumpers. Three levels of jumping platforms, decorated in 1996 Olympic memorabilia, will provide opportunity to give height to the gleeful plunges into Lake Lanier. - Connie Hagler

We wanted to set ourselves apart a little from the regular plunges and raise a little more money. - Julie Smith

Those tax cuts were directed largely to those who needed them the least. New Jersey wants a senator who will stand up to George Bush instead of blindly following him as he plunges the nation further into record debt. - Matthew Miller

This dreadful catastrophe plunges all of France into mourning... all the consequences can be drawn. - Jacques Chirac

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation. - Raoul Vaneigem

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The ECB is likely to hike rates again in 2006, but, unless sterling plunges or equities soar, the MPC probably will cut again. - Michael Saunders

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others. - Janet Malcolm

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness. - Marion Zimmer Bradley