Romantic Penguins Quotes & Sayings

A lot of people who know about the view from the tip-top of a bridge or tall building are dead, because they climbed up in order to jump off. But sometimes I wonder if they truly planned on jumping or if the view was just so beautiful that they realized what a wide big net beauty is, and then wanted so badly to be caught by it. — Alissa Nutting

I'm not in a hurry, the woman said. Patience for her vengeance dripped like vitriol from her voice; even Tich was quelled. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Was the man cleverer than he looked or just crazier? The line separating the two seemed rather thin — Tarun Shanker

to a bench I had made for her a few years back. Fred followed, hoping for another handout. "You need to know that I wasn't offering charity, Jake," she said — Richard Houston

I should grow sad to think that such among them as I sometimes meet with in my daily walks are scarcely less infirm than I; that time has brought us to a level; and that all distinctions fade and vanish as we take our trembling steps towards the grave. — Charles Dickens

Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts. — Irma S. Rombauer

Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways. — Greil Marcus

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause. — John Dryden

To whom much is given, from him much will be required. — Luke The Evangelist

Writing this, I'm reminded that until I was quite old I too adhered to the romantic cult of madness. I got over it, thank God. Experience has taught me that this particular form of romanticism is pure stupidity, and that madness is the saddest, most dismal thing on earth. — Emmanuel Carrere

Realize that "I Can't" usually means "I won't"! — Tae Yun Kim

His latest job [My Dad] had been as a truck driver, picking up and delivering diapers. For months, he had complained bitterly about the odor and the mess, saying it was the worst job in the world. But now that he had lost it, he seemed to want it back. — Howard Schultz And Dori Jones Yang

No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I was about as political as a bath towel. — Michel Houellebecq

I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic. — Andrew Sullivan

Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever. — Anna Staniszewski