Pemberton Quotes

#1. Generally, I am opposed to vandalism. But I am also generally opposed to Lacey Pemberton- and in the end, that proved to be the more deeply held conviction.

John Green

#2. Denim miniskirt. Tight white T-shirt. Scooped neck. Extraordinarily olive skin. Legs that make you care about legs. Perfectly coiffed curly brown hair. A laminated button reading ME FOR PROM QUEEN. Lacey Pemberton. Walking toward us.

John Green

#3. A kind of annihilation, was what Serena called their coupling, and though Pemberton would never have thought to describe it that way, he knew her words had named the thing exactly.

Ron Rash

#4. She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just - like, a person.

John Green

#5. You men notice so little, Pemberton. Physical strength is your gender's sole advantage.

Ron Rash

#6. Pemberton felt something shift inside him, something small but definite, the way a knob's slight twist allowed a door to swing wide open.

Ron Rash

#7. I loved Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's 'Inside No 9.' The way that they constrained each episode to a single location, then tasked themselves with including completely new characters every week, within a single half-hour.

Tom Riley

#8. America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

Claudia Pemberton

#9. I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

Shawn Ashmore

#10. We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

Michelle Rhee

#11. I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

Ian Thorpe

#12. To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.

Gayle Pemberton

#13. God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.

Duke Of Wellington

#14. Books for me were what the ocean is to the fearless explorer-deep and mysterious, boundless and soothing. I loved the smell of books, the feel of their weight in my hands, the rustle of the pages as I turned them, the magnificent illustrations on the covers that promised hidden treasures within.

Steve Pemberton

#15. Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.

Gayle Pemberton

#16. I don't have a past, only a future." Valentina, "Goddess

Margaret Pemberton

#17. When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.

Tim Gunn

#18. What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.

Steve Pemberton

#19. A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

Edmund Burke

#20. We live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. So we have a decision to make: keep trying to control a storm that is not going to go away or start learning how to live within the rain.

Glenn Pemberton

#21. Immeasurable voids and endless questions are often created when a father deliberately abandons his child. Far too often, those empty spaces are filled by opportunists who see that vulnerability as something to exploit.

Steve Pemberton

#22. Smiles, like humor, are the most serious and complex forms of communication used by human beings.

Gayle Pemberton

#23. I did not look like my story. I would respond by saying that none of us really do; it is impossible to tell, from a single glance, the journeys someone has traveled, the experiences that have made them who they are.

Steve Pemberton

#24. I write because when I look out at the world...I want to write it. When I look out at the world, I want to help it; and somehow, I feel as though by writing, I just might.

Ryan J. Pemberton

#25. Our TV and movie cops are usually in heels and pencil skirts.

Allison Tolman

#26. To be fair, I spend most days living inside my head--hoping that when I finally open my mouth or put pen to paper, what comes out will matter.

Ryan J. Pemberton

#27. ...I realized that any provisions we had did not ultimately come from me at all, but only from God. Sometimes we can't see that from where we're standing, but time and time again on this journey, God provided for us in ways that I cannot ignore, just as He had before we left.

Ryan J. Pemberton

#28. I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.

Edward Ruscha

#29. It is not a question of crime and punishment
it is problem and solution.

Rohinton Mistry

#30. Those stories helped me realize that, although tragedy and loss are regrettably commonplace, we aren't measured by what happens to us but rather by how we respond to it.

Steve Pemberton