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  • A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.

    Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.41, Macmillan
  • I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.

    Funny   Morning   Humor  
  • I would hope with all my heart that people understand this and see it in the film. And there are also other messages in Happy Feet, like racial and environmental ones, but none of them are so overt. George has made a great story about penguins with a lot of humanity in it and audiences can follow a species we don't know that well.

    Heart   Feet   People  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

    "Carla Gugino Exclusive Interview EVERY DAY; Updates on SUCKER PUNCH, MR POPPER'S PENGUINS, ENTOURAGE and I MELT WITH YOU". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 12, 2011.
  • My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

    Boys   Names   Penguins  
  • All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

    Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.48, Hachette UK
  • Oh yeah, and Spader was hanging out with a penguin" -Bobby Pendragon

  • Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

    Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2016). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively. [...] But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences—they were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could “relate without getting close.” For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.

    "The Whore of Mensa". www.newyorker.com. December 16, 1974.
  • They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there.

  • What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.

    Funny   Humor   Rivers  
  • I'm not going to / let a little thing like the world stand in my way. / Why should I? I understand it / as much as I understand penguins / and I still go to the zoo.

    Zoos   World   Littles  
  • You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.

    Source: www.tcj.com
  • the answer to every problem involved penguins

  • A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

    Twitter post from May 24, 2014
  • I was in New York last Christmas - it's snowing; there's a guy in a t-shirt. I'm like, 'Dude, aren't you cold?' 'No, I'm from New York. I don't get cold.' Just 'cause you're from a cold place doesn't mean you're genetically predisposed to not feeling cold. You're not a penguin. I was like, 'In fact, sir, you're Puerto Rican, so if anything, you should be more cold.

    New York   Mean   Snow  
  • Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at zoos. Mitt Romney once did a photo op at a zoo. That was a big mistake, because he stood next to the chameleon, and HE changed colors.

    Zoos   Mistake   Color  
  • Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

    Party   Land   Two  
  • The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

    George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker
  • When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

    Proud   Penguins   Modern  
  • You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

  • There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.63, Random House
  • Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.

    Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1908, Simon and Schuster
  • Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.

    Mother   Baby   Father  
  • Angel?" I said. "Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing to eat a bunch of raw fish and krill, and then barf it back up into a baby penguin's cute, cheeping mouth? Like, every hour?" Sometimes my crushing logic astounds even me.

    Cute   Crush   Baby  
  • I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

  • Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

    Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • I think penguins are cute.

    "Jon Heder and Zooey Deschanel Interviewed – SURF'S UP". Press conference, collider.com. April 13, 2007.
  • I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.

    Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.130, Penguin
  • I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

    Funny   Book   Humor  
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