Penguins Quotes

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

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Giraffe, Being The Best

  Twitter post from May 24, 2014

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• One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

  John Ruskin

  Anger, Looks, Angry

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Cute, Thinking, People

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• the answer to every problem involved penguins

  Rick Riordan

  Answers, Problem, Antarctica

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• You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

  Carla Gugino

  Cold, 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.

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• If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

  Ed Sheeran

  Dancer, Madagascar, Want

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• Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we might find our own survival threatened.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Health, Science, Water

  "Penguins". Book by Martin Rees (p. 160), March 1, 2009.

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• 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

  Looks, Surprise, Someday

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• No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

  Wil Wheaton

  Successful, Awkward, Matter

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• I want to be your personal penguin. Please?

  Sandra Boynton

  Want, Please

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• She smiled with the warmth of a penguin.

  Kim Harrison

  Warmth

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• I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.

  Bob Saget

  People, Want, Knows

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• 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

  Heart, Animal, Frozen

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

  Douglas Adams

  Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Hitchhikers Guide, Arthur Dent

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• I think penguins are cute.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Cute, Thinking

  "Jon Heder and Zooey Deschanel Interviewed – SURF'S UP". Press conference, collider.com. April 13, 2007.

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• If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100 miles per hour.

  Linus Torvalds

  Running, Thinking, Excess

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Made, Has Beens

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.63, Random House

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• 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

  Thinking, Racism, Perfect

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

  Douglas Adams

  Dream, Brain, Mind

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Book, Humor

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

  Rich Lowry

  Example, March, Monogamy

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• I’ll always defend the people I love even though I’m as terrifying as a baby penguin.

  Niall Horan

  Baby, People

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• 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

  Cute, Leopards, Kind

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• 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

  Prayer, Play, Looks

  Thomas Keating (2002). “Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel”, p.61, A&C Black

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• Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.

  Will Cuppy

  Air, Sea, Age

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.88, David R. Godine Publisher

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