Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

David R. Brower

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

Camille Claudel

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

We've all got to play by the same rules, and I think the senator wants to tilt the playing field. And I think what he did (with respect to Penn State) is what's wrong with Harrisburg.

Bill Ayers

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,

Benjamin Franklin

...Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion...

Benjamin Franklin

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

Dana Gioia

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Claire Messud

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Shakira

I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

Luiz Scolari

Was I the only one who saw a penalty on Nuno Gomes? Didn't you see that?

Right now, I don't understand what is a penalty shot.

Perhaps they'll sharpen their pencil a little bit.

Obviously, we took way too many penalties tonight.

But we're still having too many penalties and getting too many people out of position.

D. J. MacHale

Oh yeah, and Spader was hanging out with a penguin" -Bobby Pendragon

Douglas Adams

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

Ambrose Bierce

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

Donald Trump

I'm not a schmuck. Even if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I won't lose a penny.

Donald Trump

Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant!

Amy Tan

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

Andy Samberg

If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.

It amounts to about a penny a beer.

I think it's a skill to be able to take a penalty kick. There's a lot of pressure to step up there and take that shot.

We took too many penalties and that took us out of our game.

We've got to play better and stay out of the penalty box.

Greg Thomas

There are no retrospective penalties in the game's regulations.

Kelly Rutherford

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

I always say the players pick this team, not us. You can't have a team of 12 first-line NHL players. You need role players, checkers, penalty killers. You can't just take the 12 most skilled forwards.

He got a penalty already. That is sufficient.