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  • When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. -- Linda Grant
  • 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
  • Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday. -- Ellen DeGeneres
  • 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. -- Zoe Sugg
  • 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
  • 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. -- Tabatha Coffey
  • 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. -- Mal Peet
  • He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave. -- Sid Waddell
  • It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. -- Joe Moore
  • I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point. -- Jack Falahee
  • I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer. -- David Hallberg
  • 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. -- Alison Gopnik
  • 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. -- Dave Attell
  • 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! -- Steven Cojocaru
  • 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. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
  • 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. -- King Krule
  • Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational. -- Robert Gottlieb
  • She smiled with the warmth of a penguin. -- Kim Harrison
  • I want to be your personal penguin. Please? -- Sandra Boynton
  • Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it. -- Douglas Adams
  • No problem, I'll get a penguin to show us -- P. C. Cast
  • One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin. -- John Ruskin
  • Oh yeah, and Spader was hanging out with a penguin" -Bobby Pendragon -- D. J. MacHale
  • My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy. -- Tim Burton
  • A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Everyone looks at me like I'm stark naked standing on a glacier petting a penguin. -- Brandy Nacole
  • I'll always defend the people I love even though I'm as terrifying as a baby penguin. -- Niall Horan
  • I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin. -- Bob Saget
  • Rap game Julio Franco, Chuck Norris, Texas Ranger/ Ice on my fingers look like I slap-boxed a penguin. -- Riff Raff
  • Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin. -- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
  • Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin. -- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
  • 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
  • No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside. -- Wil Wheaton
  • All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
  • The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding. -- Paul Nicklen
  • 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. -- Bill Watterson
  • The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • 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. -- Frank Zappa
  • 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. -- Noel Fielding
  • You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures. -- Thomas Keating
  • Still enmeshed from the knees down, Vayl flopped off the cabinet before we realized he needed a hand down, falling fast and hard like a penguin who hasn't bought the whole flightless scenario. -- Jennifer Rardin
  • Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures. -- Meg Cabot
  • One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream. -- Marisha Pessl
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