Top 100 Penn Quotes
#1. The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
William Penn
#2. Hey," the cabbie yelled. "How's about a tip?"
"You bet-ski," Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. "Don't kiss strange men in Penn Station.
Libba Bray
#3. Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee
William Penn
#4. God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
William Penn
#5. You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.
William Penn
#6. The world is full of sluts on skates. From Penn-warren's "All the Kings Men.
Martha Miller
#7. Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Robert Penn Warren
#9. Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
William Penn
#10. That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.
Sean Penn
#11. Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.
Trey Parker
#12. In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
William Penn
#13. I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.
Penn Jillette
#16. Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
Penn Jillette
#17. We mourn for the dead, but it's a selfish act. It may be a tragedy that so many young lives are lost to us, but it's our tragedy alone because they are at peace.
Jenny Penn
#18. I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
Penn Jillette
#21. It wasn't until the morning after my uneventful shift, when I wake up, dazed and tense and frustrated as hell, that I realize I'm getting obsessed with that girl, my partner, and this thing is running me ragged.
Charlotte Penn Clark
#22. A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
William Penn
#23. I write because the book I want to read has not been written yet.
Richard H.R. Penn
#24. I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot.
Penn Jillette
#25. I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn
#26. Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.
William Penn
#28. Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
William Penn
#29. A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
William Penn
#30. Trump tried to book Penn & Teller once in Vegas at one of his casinos, but we were priced out of his budget.
Penn Jillette
#32. A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Irving Penn
#33. Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
William Penn
#34. As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.
Matthew Lillard
#35. Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd ...
Robert Burns
#36. I wear sunscreen every single day - I just don't go out of the house without it. I also try to get enough sleep, eat as healthy as I can and keep hydrated. I have very sensitive skin, and depending on what products are used on a shoot, my skin can break out in an instant.
Dylan Penn
#37. I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
Penn Jillette
#38. In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.
Sean Penn
#39. Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
Sean Penn
#40. I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.
Sean Penn
#41. Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
Robert Penn Warren
#43. Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
Penn Jillette
#44. They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
#45. Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.
Sean Penn
#47. I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.
Ira Glass
#48. It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.
Penn Jillette
#49. I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world - and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.
Penn Jillette
#50. We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
Sean Penn
#51. Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
Penn Jillette
#52. We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.
Penn Jillette
#53. Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.
Penn Jillette
#54. I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude ... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
Utkarsh Ambudkar
#55. Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
Penn Jillette
#56. I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.
Trey Parker
#57. I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
Sean Penn
#58. The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
Penn Jillette
#59. You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
Penn Badgley
#60. If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.
Penn Jillette
#61. But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?
J.F. Penn
#62. Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
#63. All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine
Sean Penn
#64. You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!
Penn Jillette
#66. I think life's an irrational obsession.
Sean Penn
#67. I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
Annie Leibovitz
#68. I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.
Penn Jillette
#69. As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#71. At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
Sean Penn
#72. If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
William Penn
#73. I went back to my own innocent little chores and sat in my office as the fall drew imperceptibly on and the earth leaned on its axis and shouldered the spot I occupied a little out of the direct, billowing, crystalline, consuming blaze of the enormous sun.
Robert Penn Warren
#74. I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
Sean Penn
#75. The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
William Penn
#76. This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
Penn Jillette
#77. America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.
Penn Jillette
#78. Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.
Penn Jillette
#79. Even one person's misunderstanding [of a blue joke] may not be worth the next guy's laugh.
Penn Jillette
#80. Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
Penn Jillette
#81. Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn
#82. The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
William Penn
#83. I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
Dylan Penn
#84. True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
#85. Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn
#86. Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
William Penn
#87. Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel ... not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, What do I really feel about this?
Robert Penn Warren
#88. Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.
Robert Penn Warren
#89. Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
William Penn
#90. He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.
William Penn
#91. Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
Kal Penn
#92. Death cannot kill that which does not die.
William Penn
#93. A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
Robert Penn Warren
#94. More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
Robert Penn Warren
#95. I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with each other, so that their continuous presence in a company, as in England, is not absolutely necessary.
Arthur Penn
#96. It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
William Penn
#97. Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
William Penn
#98. There's no way you ask Sean Penn a question and then, you're gonna be HUGE !
Louis C.K.
#99. I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.
Penn Dayton Badgley
#100. Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
Penn Jillette
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