Penesises Quotes & Sayings

There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations. — Ted Gup

My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs. — Steve Jobs

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that! — Arthur Conan Doyle

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels. — L.P. Hartley

To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. — Olga Kurylenko

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. — Maxwell Maltz

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy. — Christoph Waltz

War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young — Wilbur Smith

I've always been mad about cats. — Vivien Leigh

The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, i.e., what is possible as being probable or necessary ... Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. — Aristotle.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. — Thomas Paine

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many. — A. Whitney Brown

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience. — Jillian Medoff