Porpoising Penguin Quotes & Sayings

The key to walking around places where you're not supposed to be is to look like you're too important to be interrupted. Most people are non-confrontational by nature, and if you give them a good reason not to challenge you, they won't. I — Craig Schaefer

I'm guarded; I don't talk much. — David Byrne

An adult female orang-utan cannot defeat an adult male spotted hyena. That is the plain empirical truth. Let it become known among zoologists. Had Orange Juice been a male, had she loomed as large on the scales as she did in my heart, it might have been another matter. But portly and overfed though she was from living in the comfort of a zoo, even so she tipped the scales at barely 110 pounds. Female orang-utans are half the size of males. But it is not simply a question of weight and brute strength. Orange Juice was far from defenseless. What it comes down to is attitude and knowledge. What does a fruit eater know about killing? Where would it learn where to bite, how hard, for how long? An orang-utan may be taller, may have very strong and agile arms and long canines, but if it does not know how to use these as weapons, they are of little use. The hyena, with only its jaws, will overcome the ape because it knows what it wants and how to get it. — Yann Martel

No need to queue up; step forward and count yourself in. — Gina Greenlee

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history. — Len Deighton

The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck. — Steven Spielberg

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. — James Earl Jones

I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go. — C.S. Lewis

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it. — Max Brooks

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. — Twyla Tharp

I think Rihanna always looks so fresh and I'm like, "How do you do that? We all know how much pot you smoke!" — Katy Perry

Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set. — Mindy Kaling

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person. — John R. Allen