Parachuting Penguins Quotes & Sayings

Henry James was our master of periphrasis
the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words. — Edward Abbey

The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest? — Marty Rubin

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end. — Frederick Buechner

Whoever said running in the morning gives you energy never had a day job that involves customer service. — Caroline Kepnes

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. — Edwin Muir

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work. — Anne Lamott

When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature — Tzvetan Todorov

I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting. — Chuck Klosterman