Quotes About The Penumbra

#1. Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Boyd K. Packer

#2. When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

Paul Theroux

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

Bertrand Russell

#4. The reality is, we all want to walk on water, but none of us wants to step off the boat.

Jarrid Wilson

#5. Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#6. 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

#7. Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!

Wilder Penfield

#8. There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#9. Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.

George Smathers

#10. I like you just the way I am.

Jenny Mollen

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I just...I'm really freaked out."
Her expression softened and she covered my fingers with her own. "I know. The joking in the face of death thing kind of gave it away.

Rachel Hawkins

#14. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

#15. 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

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

Robin Sloan

#17. To surround yourself with beauty isn't frivolous. It's a necessity. If it weren't, then our cities would not be surrounded with art museums and parks.

Charlotte Symonds

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. The still-alives. They were all crazy.

Ali Smith

#22. 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

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

Robin Sloan

#24. Booty Butt, Booty Butt, Booty Butt Cheeks

Rene Descartes

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

James Atlas

#26. Today the law defines death, with appropriate blurriness, as the cessation of brain function. Though the heart may still throb and the unknowing bone marrow create new cells, no man's history can outlive his brain.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#27. ... 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

#28. 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.

#29. 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

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

Robin Sloan

#31. 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