Mr Popper's Penguins Best Quotes

#1. If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

John Piper

#2. I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#3. Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. The central question of any execution: do you want the hood on or off? Would you rather see it coming? Or would you rather simply drift away, cocooned in warm darkness, stinking of nothing but yourself? A kind, familiar place to hide in, just before the snap, the crackle? Or the pop?

Gemma Files

#5. I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.

Shaun White

#6. Most of the stories in the Boston News-Letter were simply copied from the London papers.

Tom Standage

#7. Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

Ann Voskamp

#8. Maybe there came a point in life where you had to quit categorizing whole groups of people by a few bad experiences.

Lisa Wingate

#9. Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. Among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one may die early of a heart attack and the other may live a long, healthy life - depending on their lifestyle and what they eat.

Michael Greger

#11. So she was to be savagely heartbroken and then poisoned by one of their cook's noxious herbal brews in the space of a few hours? Dante would find inspiration in this day.

Julie Anne Long

#12. Rice in Taiwan, unlike America, doesn't always come out soggy and limp.

Eddie Huang