Plank

Plank may refer to:

  • Plank (wood)
  • Plank (exercise), an isometric exercise for the abdominal muscles
  • The Plank (1967 film), a British comedy film with no dialogue
  • The Plank (1979 film), a remake of the 1967 film
  • Plank, an item of a party platform in United States politics
  • Plank, a character in Ed, Edd n Eddy
  • Plank or Peter Clements, guitar tech for Radiohead

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Famous quotes containing the word plank:

    We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher’s task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
    And I dropped down, and down—
    And hit a World, at every plunge,
    And Finished knowing—then—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)