Quotes About Penn

During the course of Sean's stay in the jail, Ramirez asked Penn for his autograph. Sean wrote: Dear Richard: It's impossible to be incarcerated and not feel a kinship with your fellow inmates. Well, Richard, I've done the impossible. I feel absolutely no kinship with you. Sean Penn

Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

The city had been founded on the sound principles of religious tolerance, a free press, and good landscaping, by William Penn—a man who grew tree saplings in bathtubs, and who had imagined his metropolis as a great nursery of both plants and ideas.

Trump received his first four deferments from the Vietnam-era draft because he was a college student. In 1968, after he graduated from Penn and thus became ineligible for more educational deferments, he received a fifth—a medical deferment because of bone spurs.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

Hey," the cabbie yelled. "How's about a tip?" "You bet-ski," Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. "Don't kiss strange men in Penn Station.

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

The University of Pennsylvania and my wonderful colleagues in the Department of Religious Studies have been routinely sent hate emails about me. Calls to fire me are numerous. Some have even come from within the university. The Penn Switchboard is flooded with calls, and the more conservative alums threaten to stop contributing.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

In College Bowl action, the University of Miami loses the national championship to Penn State when Vinny Testaverde, after selecting the "History" category, identifies World War II as "a kind of fish.

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

I get a lot of attention, maybe not as much as a lightweight in B.J. Penn or someone like that, but my time is coming.