Penelope Quotes

He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day. ~ Penelope Lively

In the midst of my vulnerability, I found my self-worth. ~ Penelope Ward

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. ~ Penelope Gilliatt

Alone, Empty, Fraud, Shame, Fear,
Close your eyes.There is nothing to see out here. ~ Penelope Douglas

Chess would teach me strategy, fencing would teach me human nature and self-preservation, and dancing would teach me my body. All necessary for a well-rounded person. ~ Penelope Douglas

And who am I, that I should be asking you of all people for an easy life? As you think best then Lord, but only, give me patience when my own runs out... ~ Penelope Wilcock

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life. ~ Penelope Wilton

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do. ~ Penelope Cruz

The world isn't always what's right in front of you, you know? It's below, it's above, it's out there somewhere. Every burn of every light inside every house I see when I look down from the rooftop has a story. Sometimes we just need to change our perspective.
And when I look down at everything, I remember that there's more out there than just what's going on in my house - the bullshit with my dad, school, my future. I look at all those full houses, and I remember, I'm just one of many. It's not to say we're not special or important, but it's comforting, I guess. You don't feel so alone. ~ Penelope Douglas

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children. ~ Penelope Lively

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. ~ Dave Mustaine

That's the thing about true love. It can rise from the ashes because at its source, it's indestructible. Layers can be stripped away and lost, but if you're lucky enough to find them again and put them back together, the end result is stronger than ever. ~ Penelope Ward

Penelope! Marriage proposals from wealthy, eligible young men do not blossom on trees! Particularly not in January, I wouldn't think. ~ Sarah MacLean

She gave me a sad smile and did what good friends do - gave me a second slice of cake. ~ Penelope Douglas

I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes ... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body. ~ Penelope Cruz

Every day in life, people we will likely never encounter a second time, pass us by. For some unknown reason, I just couldn't accept that he was one of them. ~ Penelope Ward

Scandal had made it easy for Penelope to end the engagement without being jilted. Well, at least, not precisely.
She would not describe it as a jilt, exactly. More of a jolt, really. ~ Sarah MacLean

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. ~ Penelope Lively

Elyse's rose-colored glasses were firmly back in place. How much more beautiful the world appeared through the eyes of love. ~ Penelope Marzec

When I thought about it, there actually weren't a lot of things or people in the world that I loved. Why had I left them here? ~ Penelope Douglas

Everyone contemplates suicide at some point, even if it's just for a minute. And one thing is usually the root cause. Loneliness. ~ Penelope Douglas

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. ~ Penelope Lively

And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it ~ Penelope Lively

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. ~ Penelope Lively

Life never follows your plan.
The truth was you could spend countless hours planning and preparing, and the only thing you could count on once you'd got your plan set was that it would be the one way things won't happen. ~ Penelope Douglas

I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay! ~ Penelope Cruz

Every creature has a soft underbelly. I'm going to find yours."
"Search me if you like, Your Ladyship. I warn you, it's not softness you'll find. ~ Tessa Dare

Lady Penelope Campion- the aging, frazzled, unsightly spinster who...
Who wasn't any of those things. Not by a mile. As fortune would have it, Lady Penelope Campion turned out to be a fair-haired, blue-eyed beauty.
In his mind's eye, he could still see her sprawled across his bed in her dressing gown. Like an all-grown-up Goldilocks, having crept into his house uninvited to test the mattress. Too soft, too hard...?
He didn't know her opinion, but Gabe's reaction was the latter. His cock was in its usual morning prime, standing at full mast. ~ Tessa Dare

This is all coming from someplace deeper, like when we make love my soul cries tears of joy because it comes together with its other half. ~ Penelope Ward

My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined. ~ Penelope Lively

Because he's the one pure, beautiful thing untainted by ugliness," he repeated his same words from the shower. "And we love him for it. ~ Penelope Douglas

Listen to me, you bastard."
"No," Gabriel said.
This simple response left Ash nonplussed. But fuming.
"I'm listening to exactly one person in this room," Gabriel said evenly. "It isn't you. The lady can speak for herself."
Oh. Penny's heart fluttered in her chest.
If by chance, he did mean to seduce her, repeating that sentence fifty times over might do the trick. ~ Tessa Dare

Come, little slayer, into my lair, and we shall play a game..."

~Penelope, Path to Damnation ~ October Weeks

I can't believe I actually was in my own movie. ~ Penelope Spheeris

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it. ~ Penelope Wilton

Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug. No Penelope she; she must hunt in the forest. ~ Evelyn Waugh

Run all you want, Little Monster," he said, sounding like a threat. "We're faster. ~ Penelope Douglas

Time had lost its importance. That was one of the good things about getting old: you weren't perpetually in a hurry. All her life, Penelope had looked after other people, but now she had no one to think about but herself. There was time to stop and look, and, looking, to remember. Visions widened, like views seen from the slopes of a painfully climbed mountain, and having come so far, it seemed ridiculous not to pause and enjoy them. ~ Rosamunde Pilcher

Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever. ~ Penelope Lively

He said, aloud, 'The external world is the world of shadows. It throws its shadows into the kingdom of light. How different they will appear when this darkness is gone and the shadow-body has passed away. The universe, after all, is within us. The way leads inward, always inwards. ~ Penelope Fitzgerald

New world are born out of destruction. ~ L. Penelope

No funny business. I'll scream and dead or not it will hurt your ears ~ Penelope Fletcher

Now I'm the go-to-girl for silent films. ~ Penelope Ann Miller

Feeling one ought to apologize is not quite the same thing as saying 'I am sorry' -Penelope ~ Maryrose Wood

I'm sorry," he whispered. "I know I can make this up to you. Don't hate me. ~ Penelope Douglas

Unfortunately, I am very aware of editing and I look at the monitor too much. Sometimes the monitor can become your worst enemy because you can, consciously or unconsciously, start editing yourself. ~ Penelope Cruz

After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one. ~ Kristy Swanson

He gave us three irrefutible pieces of advice about the male species:
1. Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you'll see which one he is.
2. They will try to tell you that it feels better without a condom. You just tell me where they live.
3. And relationships are supposed to make your life better. You don't drag each other down. You hold each other up. ~ Penelope Douglas

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth. ~ Penelope Leach

It feels great and it's very beautiful when you can bring someone of your own nationality into a story, where even the historic element of it is important. I loved that I could use my own accent for the character. ~ Penelope Cruz

It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way! ~ Penelope Riley

Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again? ~ Penelope Cruz

The watermelon juice spilling over your lip?" he indicated. "Lick it up or I will. ~ Penelope Douglas

He made himself the cure, which wouldn't have been necessary if he hadn't also created the disease. ~ Penelope Douglas

Well, Scarborough cares, doesn't he? Maximus doesn't - not really. No doubt he's a bit compelled by the chase, but if he doesn't win" - she shrugged her shoulders - "he'll simply find another suitable heiress. She - Lady Penelope herself - doesn't really matter to him. And if it comes right down to it, wouldn't you chose passion - however old - over dispassion? ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself. ~ Maggie Smith

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention. ~ Penelope Fitzgerald

Right. So I didn't tell her. Now, where do we start?"
His face falls into a pout. "I was counting on Bunce to tell us where to start."
"Let's start with what we know," I say. That's where Penelope always starts.
"Right." Baz actually seems nervous. He's tapping the chalk against his trouser leg, leaving white smudges. ~ Rainbow Rowell

When I was fourteen I had the world at my feet but somebody didn't do their job properly and allowed me to sin. ~ Penelope Mortimer

But I think for the first time in my life, something has mattered enough for me to take a chance. I'm way more terrified of losing you than I ever could be of trying and failing. ~ Penelope Ward

Terplash, & what difference make! One little white spark of light! Hair woven hands Penelope seaboat smeller

Is Virgin you trying to fathom me Tiresome old sea, aint you sick & tired of all of this merde? this incessant boom boom & sand walk ~ Jack Kerouac

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book. ~ Penelope Wilton

You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job. ~ Penelope Douglas

Can we just skip to the end?" I asked softly. "I'm tired of missing you, ~ Penelope Douglas

What happened?"
"This happened." He shifted his arms to reveal a bundle of tiny, knobby joints and fluffy patches of black and white.
A newborn goat.
"Oh, my goodness." She knelt behind him, peering over his shoulder. "Surely not Marigold?"
"I told you so," he said irritably.
As if she'd be intimidated by gruff words from a man cradling a newborn goat in his arms. She'd always known he had a capacity for gentleness.
I told you so, too.
She reached to stroke the little goat's fur.
Gabriel's shoulder muscle flinched in annoyance. "My shirt was ruined, I'll have you know. Completely unsalvageable. And then this runtish little thing wouldn't stop shivering."
"Would it help if I told you that I've never found you so wildly attractive as I do in this moment?"
"No. ~ Tessa Dare

It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be? ~ Penelope Lively

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television. ~ Penelope Ann Miller

I didn't mean hang glide. I meant do things that give you an adrenaline rush?"

"I still get one every time I take off. When I'm barreling that plane down the runway at a hundred and eighty miles an hour and I pull back on the yoke to lift the nose and we break from the ground…it's like the first time, every time."

"So you're a thrill seeker."

Carter shrugged. "At times. Life without a little thrill is boring, beautiful. ~ Penelope Ward

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out. ~ Penelope Wilton

I think too many people give others too much power over them. But if they're not missing you or thinking about you or wanting to be near you, then it's time to realize you're worth someone who does ~ Penelope Douglas

When you're cared for, you care for others. ~ Penelope Douglas

I had finished a book yesterday and was in that annoying phase of still being so involved in its storyline that I was unable to commit to a new novel, although I had several waiting to be read. ~ Penelope Haines

Don't you know by now that you are everything? ~ Penelope Ward

He offered her his hand once more, and the wide, flat palm beckoned.
Hades, offering pomegranate seeds.
If she took it, everything would change. Everything would be different.
There would be no going back. Though, somewhere in her mind, she knew there was no going back anyway.
Clutching her dress together, she took his hand. ~ Sarah MacLean

I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us. ~ Penelope Lively

Don't change, Ryen wrote in a letter once. There's no one like you, and i can't love you if you stop being you. I guess I shouldn't say that, but I'm a little drunk right now-just came back from a party when I saw your letter-but what the hell? I don't care. You knew I love you, right? You're my best friend.
So don't ever change. This is a big ass world, and when we leave our small towns, we're going to find our tribe. If we don't stay true to ourselves, how will they recognize us? (Both of us, because you know we're on the same tribe, right?)
And even if it's just the two of us, it will be the best. ~ Penelope Douglas

I know you wish to be normal, human, but soon you will see there is nothing better than what you are. ~ Penelope Fletcher

There are days when I can find nothing good in the world and I hate everyone. ~ Penelope Crowe

Few simple rules: respect your elders, take care of your body, finish what you start, and solve your own problems. ~ Penelope Douglas

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view. ~ Penelope Cruz

There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else. ~ Penelope Trunk

Because you're the one with shit to prove to your loser old man," Damon retorted. "We can smell our own. Now, both of you, hurry up. ~ Penelope Douglas

Sometimes, love also means putting the needs of those you love ahead of your own. ~ Penelope Ward

And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.
We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly: ~ Sherman Alexie

Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all ... he is a complete man as well, a good man. ~ James Joyce

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. ~ Penelope Lively

This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope. ~ Richard Adams

It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship. ~ Penelope Cruz

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do. ~ Penelope Spheeris

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss. ~ Penelope Wilton

This memory was both happy and sad: happy because it was so pleasant, and sad because it made Penelope think about how much she missed Swanburne
the girls, the teachers, Miss Mortimer. Or perhaps it was her own much younger self, that pint-sized person whom she could never be again, whom she missed. It was hard to say. ~ Maryrose Wood

In 1959 Florence Green occasionally passed a night when she was not absolutely sure whether she had slept or not. This was because of her worries as to whether to purchase a small property, the Old House, with its own warehouse on the foreshore, and to open the only bookshop in Hardborough. The uncertainty probably kept her awake. She had once seen a heron flying across the estuary and trying, while it was on the wing, to swallow an eel which it had caught. The eel, in turn, was struggling to escape from the gullet of the heron and appeared a quarter, a half, or occasionally three-quarters of the way out. The indecision expressed by both creatures was pitiable. They had taken on too much. Florence felt that if she hadn't slept at all - and people often say this when they mean nothing of the kind - she must have been kept awake by thinking of the heron. ~ Penelope Fitzgerald

Tyler looked after him and then turned to me, cocking his head. I'm not a jealous man, but for you I might make an exception. ~ Penelope Douglas

Your tongue was in my mouth."
Breathless, I jerked my head. "So it was."
"It licked me."
"You licked back."
"It seemed rude not to."
"Well.... ~ Penelope Fletcher

Since Hetty wasn't even here yet, I excused myself to go to the bathroom where I promptly picked my kindle up again. Don't judge. ~ Penelope Ward

Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows. ~ Penelope Spheeris

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things. ~ Penelope Mitchell

But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he'd come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user. ~ Penelope Douglas

Well, my life had been nothing but selfish up until then. Nothing should ever come before family. I learned that the hard way. ~ Penelope Ward

She was in love, as she quite saw, with a middle - aged man who said the same thing to all the girls, who had been a prince for an evening which he'd most likely forgotten already, who had given her a ring with a redcurrant in it and who cared, to the exclusion of all else, for his work. ~ Penelope Fitzgerald