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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
-
I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
-
My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
-
Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
-
This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I believe in sleeping.
-
The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.
-
I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.
-
We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
-
I always have a problem playing text-heavy games. I'm a slow reader. I don't speak English well. As a kid in China, trying to play these games, I just wanted the text to go away.
-
When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.
-
Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.
-
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
-
The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
-
Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.
-
I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.
-
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
