Penetrable Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor! — Jean Harlow

Julia Bliss Flaherty, as Ivy now realized, was of the same stripe. Pinned down and obliged to justify herself, she would explain her actions in terms of some altruistic plan. And she might even believe it. But it wasn't that at all. She was like Ivy's grandmother. If you paid fealty to her, she would favor you, and your reputation and power would grow among all the others who did likewise. — Neal Stephenson

The secular utopians basically said the exact same thing, they just took the Bible out of the equation. The religious and the secular groups recognized each other as fellow travellers. They exchanged newsletters and asked each other questions like, "What's a good soup pot to use if you're making dinner for 800 people?" They had these practical connections. — Christine Jennings

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. — John Crowe Ransom

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there. — Gus Van Sant