Penzance Quotes & Sayings

That's the point. People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary. That's why those moments are all forgotten, counted as nothing. It's a terrible loss. — Ann Tatlock

The shape of the response was an inverted V. As you experienced it if you tried Add-1 or Add-3, effort builds up with every added digit that you hear, reaches an almost intolerable peak as you rush to produce a transformed string during and immediately after the pause, and relaxes gradually as you "unload" your short-term memory. — Daniel Kahneman

Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did. — Mark Haddon

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience. — Martin Fry

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. — Tim Minchin

Has the sheep eaten the flower or not? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Don't laugh at me. Is it proper etiquette for an angel to laugh at someone in a state of Penzance?

Penzance? Are you a pirate? — Nancee Cain

It's hard to look away from the tiny curve of her waist. — Rae Carson

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs. — Kanye West

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it. — Stephen Lang

Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore. — Joe Torre

In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance. — Lesley Manville

I exist in the eye of the storm, the calm in the centre of a perpetual hurricane of cars and lorries heading for the M6, the north and Scotland, or south to Penzance and Land's End. I sometimes wonder if they don't go on the motorway at all, that I hear the same vehicles circling endlessly, a kind of multiple Flying Dutchman, doomed to travel for ever. I don't regret for one minute that I am no longer one of them. — Clare Morrall

With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people. — Maiara Walsh

I'm a chava, a young one. — Thalia

you have to plant things even if you don't think you'll get to see the harvest. — Anna Hess

The power of inner strength lies in the ability to overcome the adversities of life and pressing onward toward the achievement of the goal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. — Jonathan Edwards

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant. — James Hamilton-Paterson