Penguin Quotes

I love the Kanye West, I respect the Kanye West, but his wife look like fat penguin. She eat too much cheeseburger and she have no moderation.

It’s practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.

Back in my school days, when I would scuttle off with a cheese roll, an apple, a box of Sun-Maid raisins and a Penguin bar, my packed lunches were reassuringly predictable. And I liked it that way.

For a man so incredibly hairy and square, watching my dad get on a bike was like watching a penguin spread its wings and take flight. He’d take off at inhuman speed, a smile on his face, and never look back.

He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.

I’ve managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!

I couldn’t believe it when Penguin offered me the chance to publish a book.

The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That’s how ‘Beyond This Dark House’ appeared.

I love my iPhone – I’ve actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don’t laugh at me, but I have ‘Sally’s Spa’ – fantastic; ‘Penguin Catapult’ – it’s great; and ‘Word Solitaire’ is my new favorite.

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point.

The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ recently published by Penguin, was voted Time Magazine’s book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.

I think you can learn a lot from primary sources. ‘The Penguin Book of Witches,’ which is edited by novelist Katherine Howe, is a wonderful compilation of primary sources about witchcraft.

More than anything, I want to keep working with people of talent like Craig Gillespie, Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood. But there’s also those long-dreamt-of moments: I’d love to host ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I’d love to do a Penguin stand-alone movie at Warner Bros., I’d love to do a Teddy Roosevelt biopic.

When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.

MySpace was kind of coming to an end when I got onto social media. So my first experience was with Facebook, and there was, like, a penguin game where you feed your penguins, and you have penguin friends.

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men’s formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

It’s a little bit embarrassing to say but… I wanted to be a penguin.

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It’s a dead giveaway that I’m a dancer.

You can have villains like the Penguin, who strut around in a tuxedo with an umbrella, and Poison Ivy and all of the fantastic stuff she does, but unless there’s a bit of a human in there, and unless there’s a credible threat, then Batman himself doesn’t work.

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can’t exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can’t keep going.

You can’t train a penguin to act. You kind of have to take what you get.

For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin’s editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

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.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

There’s a tendency to think tap’s had its day, but ‘Happy Feet’ kept us in the race. That penguin is our Shirley Temple.