Sharon Kay Penman Quotes

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

Sharon Kay Penman

• Road
• Readers
• Novels
• Unexplored

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Success
  • Summer
  • Integrity

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Energy
  • Source
  • U.S.

• I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Color

• My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Understanding
  • Things
  • Enlightenment

• The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Important
  • City

• I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Happy

• Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Pressure

• The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Control
  • Write
  • Over

• Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • War
  • Death

• This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Children
  • Purpose

• When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • War
  • Peace

• They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

  

  Kim Wilde

• We were taping the episodes of the show. I guess they had decided they could now fit my face onto a TV screen, and they wouldn't have to letterbox it.

  

  Margaret Cho

• I believe in sleeping.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Believe

• The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • Long
  • Value
  • Management

• You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

  

  Sharon Creech
  • Flying
  • Head
  • Sadness

• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Stills
  • Accepting
  • Satisfied

• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open—a woman’s hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road—and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Water

• I was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten, then went to elementary school and a private Christian school while living with my grandparents until I graduated, and I loved it. But my parents were gone a lot.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Road
  • Kindergarten
  • Christian School

• My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

  

  Sharon Kay Penman
  • Road
  • Readers
  • Novels