Pene Quotes

#1. Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.

William Pene Du Bois

#2. I'm smart enough to know that you feel it, too. This isn't just heat, it's a goddamned conflagration. Not chemistry, but nuclear fission.

J. Kenner

#3. When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

Claudia Rankine

#4. That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.

Orson Scott Card

#5. One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.

Bear Bryant

#6. It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.

William Pene Du Bois

#7. Let go of fighting your habits. Simply be present and observe their patterns. This will help you to break free until the negative patterns eventually subside.

Christopher Dines

#8. This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

Patrick Henry

#9. If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Mary Astell

#10. The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

David Weinberger

#11. L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.

Michael B. Jordan

#12. You stand up to that challenging shot, you put yourself into that shot, and you pour yourself into it confidently. Stand up and commit yourself completely. If you miss it, you miss it certainly. You've done everything you can.

Debbie Massey

#13. September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

John Major

#14. That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care.

William Pene Du Bois

#15. A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

George Eliot

#16. Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

Chris Matthews