Penumbra Quotes

#1. Or what if he's weeping to himself in a lonely apartment somewhere, where his family never visits him because Grandpa Penumbra is weird and smells like books?

Robin Sloan

#2. They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically.

Mahesh Rangarajan

#3. The smell!" Penumbra repeats. "You know you are finished when people start talking about the smell.

Robin Sloan

#4. Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.

Ed Viesturs

#5. When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore within the penumbra of hurts he told himself he could bear.

John L. Parker Jr.

#6. ... the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue, the resilient dryness of the sun-parched earth, veiled only by the diaphanous gauze woven of distance and the shade of the trees.

Marcel Proust

#7. A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.

James Atlas

#8. But down below, Penumbra is shouting, "Lean, my boy! Lean!"
And wow, do I ever want this job.

Robin Sloan

#9. Academic envelope serves only to protect everything the story says and does not say, an inner afflatus always on the verge of being dispersed at contact with the air, the echo of a vanished knowledge revealed in the penumbra and in tacit allusions. Torn

Italo Calvino

#10. Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?

Robin Sloan

#11. Penumbra's cult runs on egregious licensing fees

Robin Sloan

#12. Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

Frederick Lenz

#13. The lights of Knoxville quaked in a faint penumbra to the west as must the ruins of many an older city seen by herders in the hills, by barbaric tribesmen shuffling along the roads.

Cormac McCarthy

#14. The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Adam Johnson

#15. None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Bertrand Russell

#16. In a mask we are faceless and classless, ageless and anonymous. Masks reveal the primal urge to behave like the beast in rut that leaps on the stranger or waits in the penumbra to be leapt upon.

Chloe Thurlow

#17. Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

J. P. McEvoy

#18. It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

Sophocles

#19. There are the relationships you make. All of the friends I made in grad school are the closest ones that I have.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#20. We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

Satish Kumar

#21. Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.

Bryant McGill

#22. I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of my blood and onto the page, through the dark point of the pen

Robin Sloan

#23. Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.

Grace Aguilar

#24. I always tell myself, 'Keep on fighting.' I wasn't always a good diver - I had to work my way up to where I am now. If I had given up, I wouldn't be in the position I am today. I would have so many regrets.

Christina Loukas

#25. Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone

Hillary Clinton

#26. There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

H. Rider Haggard

#27. Steal not this book, my worthy friend,
For fear the gallows will be your end;
Up the ladder, and down the rope,
There you'll hang until you choke;
Then I'll come along and say -
'Where's that book you stole away?

Jen Campbell

#28. Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

E. O. Wilson