Penn Jillette Quotes

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Kindness

• We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Fell

• A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Game
  • Win
  • Problems

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Success
  • You
  • Learned

• The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Always
  • Autobiography

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Busy

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Curiosity
  • Act
  • Analysis

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • World
  • Mind
  • Funny

• The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Light
  • Water
  • Democracy

• One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Reading

• I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

  

  Jean Rostand
  • Paradise

• The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • Great
  • History
  • Learning

• You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Want
  • Yes We Can

• The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Wish
  • Color
  • Wells

• After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Happy
  • Taken

• I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Fear
  • Taken
  • Insanity