Penguin Quotes

1. "Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-stripped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, 'Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world."
Author: Alice Sebold

2. "Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going."
Author: Alison Gopnik

3. "If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg."
Author: Apsley Cherry Garrard

4. "Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin."
Author: Apsley Cherry Garrard

5. "8. Quoted in Clive Leatherdale, Dracula: The Novel and the Legend (Wellingborough, Northants: Aquarian Press, 1985), p. 80. 9. H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1898), Book II, Ch. II, p. 202. 10. Ibid., pp. 201, 200. 11. E. J. Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969), p. 192. 12. On this important subject, see Daniel Pick's Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder c. 1848 – c. 1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) and his ‘ "Terrors of the night": Dracula and "Degeneration" in the Late Nineteenth Century', Critical Quarterly (Winter 1988). 13. For an account of and extracts from books such as these, see The Victorian Imagination: A Sampler, ed. Richard Manton (New York: Grove"
Author: Bram Stoker

6. "One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words."
Author: Bret McKenzie

7. "I wanted to, um, apologize for earlier. I can't believe I did that. I didn't think it could be real and—" "Didn't think what could be real?" …Your penguin."
Author: Cari Quinn

8. "Like a soulmate he's your penguin"
Author: Christina Perri

9. "He woke whimpering in the night and the man held him. Shh, he said. Shh. It's okay.I had a bad dream.I know.Should I tell you what it was?If you want to.I had this penguin that you wound up and it would waddle and flap its flippers. And we were in that house that we used to live in and it came around the corner but nobody had wound it up and it was really scary.Okay.It was a lot scarier in the dream.I know. Dreams can be really scary.Why did I have that scary dream?I dont know. But it's okay now. I'm going to put some wood on the fire. You go to sleep.The boy didnt answer. Then he said: The winder wasnt turning."
Author: Cormac McCarthy

10. "In fact, I've essentially given up on the idea of flight altogether and accepted that I'm going to be an angel-blood who stays earthbound, a flightless bird, like an ostrich. Maybe, or in this weather, a penguin."
Author: Cynthia Hand

11. "When the management iceberg is shaped like a huge phallus, you know that there are a lot of tossers that the top penguin has had to climb over to reach the tip and that there is no shortage of the same caliber of penguin in the balls and shaft of the corporation, just waiting for their chance to get a spurt to the top. Should I sugar coat this a little more? or tell it like it is?"
Author: Daniel Prokop

12. "Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
Author: Douglas Adams

13. "Your penguin. You know, penguins. They mate for life. Penguins are one of the only animals on the planet that do that, like humans. It's sweet. You've got yourself a little penguin, Uncle Mitch."
Author: Elisabeth Naughton

14. "You're his lobster. Or swan, Or penguin. The Spock to his Kirk"
Author: Elizabeth Rudnick

15. "Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we're young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we're standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season."
Author: Gary Shteyngart

16. "Shane's orgasmic contribution was an innovative and masterful variation on the theme of oh:"Oh...Oh...oh...oh...oh...oh...oh...oh...AH!"Stretching the waistband of my boxers I addressed the man downstairs, "make a note Mr Brown. Buy Dick and Shane a copy of The Penguin Anthology Of Orgasmic Utterances for Christmas: surprise and delight your partner, fuck buddies and neighbours with your sparkling and witty climactic repartee, you''l have them cumming back for more."
Author: Gillibran Brown

17. "Free food!" mumbled Hamilton, his mouth full. "No wonder you're rich. You don't have to pay for anything.""Since when is it free?" Jonah demanded. "If I don't leave a big tip, it'll be all over Europe that the Wiz is a cheapskate! They'll seat me behind the sound-man from the penguin movie at the Oscars!"
Author: Gordon Korman

18. "The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write.Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway...."
Author: Jack Prelutsky

19. "My dad was always snoozing on the couch, like Dagwood Bumstead. He was a lazy motherfucker. God bless him. He was always working on some kind of get-rich-quick scheme. This is what my dad was like: I'd say, Hey, Dad, we studied penguins today in school. He'd say, Yeah? I'm a penguin fucker from way back. Dad, I saw a giraffe at the zoo today. Yeah? I'm a giraffe fucker from way back. That's my dad. My dad was a giraffe fucker."
Author: James Ellroy

20. "Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky!Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly!"
Author: Jasmine Jean

21. "I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer."
Author: Jasper Fforde

22. "Hindi lahat ng bagay na nakahain sa harap mo ay dapat mong kainin. Mas lalo na kung kasalukuyan ka nang ngumunguya sa nauna mong sinubong pagkain. Baka mabulunan ka.Hindi rin sapat na dahilan ang "tao lang ako". Dahil yun mismo ang paliwanag kung bakit dapat kang umiwas. Tao ka. Hindi isang penguin na pwedeng makipag-mate kahit kanino, dahil pinagtabi kayo ng zoo keeper sa iisang pugad."
Author: Jayson G. Benedicto

23. "Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and hard like a penguin who hasn't bought the whole flightless scenario."
Author: Jennifer Rardin

24. "It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry."
Author: Joe Moore

25. "Zed : Penguins, such fascinating creatures, but I didn't know you were studying them. What class is that you're taking?Sky: The ‘we-stupid-looking-creature-should-stick-together' class."
Author: Joss Stirling

26. "The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?"
Author: Judith Hayes

27. "Teagan: How long has it been since you read a book that didn't havevampires in it?Abby: They write books with no vampires? Wait...the penguins made us read that Shakesrear guy, right?Teagan: Shakespeare."
Author: Kersten Hamilton

28. "She smiled with the warmth of a penguin."
Author: Kim Harrison

29. "I locked the door, for what good it would do me, and went to bed. The Browning Hi-Power was in its second home, a modified holster strapped to the headboard of my bed. The crucifix was cool metal around my neck. I was as safe as I was going to be and almost too tired to care.I took one more thing to bed with me, a stuffed toy penguin named Sigmund. I don't sleep with him often, just every once in a while after someone tries to kill me. Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't."
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

30. "It wasn't exactly dangerous to be out during the day... but the Council, every one of them, up to and including August, would have kittens and penguins and little baby narwhals, too, probably, if they knew what I was up to."
Author: Lili St. Crow

31. "When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase."
Author: Linda Grant

32. "Come on, Ella. Sleep green.'Ignoring him, I got into bed wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts printed with penguins. I reached over to the nightstand and flipped off the lamp.A moment of silence, and then I heard a lecherous murmur. 'I like your penguins."
Author: Lisa Kleypas

33. "Dane was shaking his head firmly. "Don't bring it here, Ella. No babies."I gave him a dark look. "What if it were a baby polar bear or a baby Galapagos penguin? I bet you'd want it then.""I'd make an exception for endangered species," he allowed."This baby is endangered. It's with my mother."
Author: Lisa Kleypas

34. "It's Privacy, Please, for the Penguins."
Author: MaryJanice Davidson

35. "Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures."
Author: Meg Cabot

36. "Then the boy realised,the penguin wasn't lost,he was just lonely."
Author: Oliver Jeffers

37. "No problem, I'll get a penguin to show us"
Author: P.C. Cast

38. "I love penguins."
Author: Quvenzhane Wallis

39. "You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy."
Author: Rich Lowry

40. "Still, Lindsay stops getting dressed, even though he's only half-done, because he gets this urge to ambush the kid with a hug. Just that, nothing else. He wraps his arms around Valentine's skinny body and pulls him close and rests his cheek on the still-damp hair and inhales the cherry-almond scent of his shampoo, and Valentine says, "Oh!" in a really odd way, like he's just read a particularly interesting fact on the back of a Penguin biscuit wrapper. Lindsay's got his eyes shut but he can feel the kid's hands creeping up his bare arms, over his shoulders. One stays there and the other comes to rest on the back of his neck, fingers playing idly with the ends of his hair, and several minutes pass without sound or movement, just the gentle thud of heartbeats. "What's that for?" Valentine asks, when Lindsay finally lets him go. "Don't know. Nothing. Just seemed the kind of thing you'd like. BAM, surprise ninja cuddles."
Author: Richard Rider

41. "Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What's the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?""That would be Antarctica," Zia said. "A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins.""Magic penguins?""Don't ask."
Author: Rick Riordan

42. "Even her pink bunny slippers seem to prick up their ears.Diary of a Penguin-napper (p. 15)"
Author: Sally Harris

43. "I want to be your personal penguin.Please?"
Author: Sandra Boynton

44. "Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My arms feel all floppy, like flightless wings. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I looked like a very sad penguin."
Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

45. "He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave."
Author: Sid Waddell

46. "Penguins,Lovely"
Author: Stephenie Meyer

47. "I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!"
Author: Steven Cojocaru

48. "In other words, I was a moderately happy penguin who was occasionally attacked by sadness."
Author: Takuji Ichikawa

49. "My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy."
Author: Tim Burton

50. "No, thanks. I already own a penguin."
Author: Woody Allen

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