Penh Quotes & Sayings

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts. — Andrew Bird

How many of your contemporaries - when asked the question 'Are you glad you had kids'? - invariably respond 'Yes, but..'? — Alex Morritt

I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day. — David Morrissey

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die
that is what we march for! — Steven Pressfield

If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for
a walk. — Raymond I. Myers

Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback. — Charles Dickens

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That's far away - I wouldn't want to climb a ladder to get there - but it isn't that far away. If you're in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea. — Randall Munroe

The world, with all its impossible variegation and the basic miracle of its existence, draws most mourners out of their grief and back into itself. The homosexual forsythia blooms; the young Irish dancers in Killarney dance, their arms as rigid as shovel handles; secret deals are done involving weapons or office space or crude oil or used cars or drugs; new lovers, believing they will never really have to get up, lie down together; the Large Hadron Collider smashes the Higgs boson into view; snow drapes its white stoles on the bare limbs of winter; the crack of the bat swung by a hefty Dominican pulls a crowd to its feet in Boston; bricks for the new hospital in Phnom Penh are laid in true courses; the single-engine Cessna lands safely in an Ohio alfalfa field during a storm. How can you resist? The true loss in only to the dying, and even the won't feel it when the dying's done. — Daniel Menaker

All you have been waiting for is your own permission. — Pat Rodegast

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past? — Sarah Jessica Parker

Believe is confident hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

By early 1979, the border area is a dead-eyed, stinking hell. He signs on as an aid worker with the Red Cross and they give him a stipend and a room. In January, the Vietnamese Communists crossed the Cambodian border, swept the Khmer Rouge aside, and took Phnom Penh in less than two weeks. The refugees wash up in their black clothes, so debilitated and disturbed that Hiroji thinks he is walking through an exhumed cemetery, they are more soil and sickness than human beings. — Madeleine Thien

The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys. — Will Self

The jeers that had risen as Barak's and Greldik's ships had been manoeuvred onto their wheeled carriages turned rather quickly into angry mutterings as the carriages, pulled by teams of Algar horses, rolled effortlessly toward the escarpment past men straining with every ounce of strength to move their ships a few inches at a time. To leave it all to artistry, Barak and Greldik ordered their men to lounge indolently on the decks of their ships, drinking ale and playing dice.
King Anheg stared very hard at his impudently grinning cousin as the big ship rolled past. His expression was profoundly offended. "That's going too far!" he exploded, jerking off his dented crown and throwing it down on the ground. — David Eddings