Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time ...
PENNY JORDAN I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of ...
PENNY JORDAN She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief bec...
LOUISE PENNY My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mi...
PENNY MARSHALL If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.
PENNY MARSHALL I guess being a hunk is a lot better than being a chunk.
JOE PENNY I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's jo...
PENNY MARSHALL To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte&#...
LOUISE PENNY Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me ab...
LAURIE PENNY I like arts and crafts.
PENNY MARSHALL You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?
PENNY MARSHALL To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted.

But what happened t...
LOUISE PENNY Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them ...
LOUISE PENNY Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-a...
LOUISE PENNY A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet ...
PENNY JORDAN A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet ...
PENNY JORDAN When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
LOUISE PENNY If I don't walk those guys, they don't score five runs. If they get three runs, we end up winning th...
BRAD PENNY I don't care if the Rockies beat us, or the Padres or the Astros, or whatever. It doesn't matter who...
BRAD PENNY If I don't walk those guys, ... they don't score five runs.
BRAD PENNY Absolutely, you celebrate it. How can you not? It's still amazing.
BRAD PENNY Tonight a couple of groundballs got through and it killed me. Sometimes you don't feel good, it has ...
BRAD PENNY I was just wild. Everything was middle of the plate. It happens. But my teammates supported me. They...
BRAD PENNY It's kind of ridiculous that you get a 10-game suspension for steroids and a six-game suspension for...
BRAD PENNY If he said I said that, he's lying. I told [Drake], 'Alfonso [blew] the call.' That's all I said, I ...
BRAD PENNY It was a curveball, a stupid pitch. He hasn't proven he can hit a fastball yet.
BRAD PENNY A couple bad breaks, a bloop hit, then a groundball to third, ... I don't know how that's a hit -- t...
BRAD PENNY I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.
PENNY KOME The Queen is contemptuous of monarchies that do pick and choose and do retire. One inherits after th...
PENNY JUNOR I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.
PENNY MARSHALL A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
LOUISE PENNY I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate ...
PENNY MARSHALL As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner ...
PENNY LANCASTER I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
PENNY MARSHALL I have a whole museum almost. Baseball and basketball take up the bulk of it, and there's some footb...
PENNY MARSHALL I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. O...
PENNY MARSHALL The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman wh...
PENNY KOME I think there's always interest in how the other half live - I see myself as a down-to-earth Ess...
PENNY LANCASTER We're in constant agony that our son is gone.
PENNY SWEET Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they s...
LOUISE PENNY It's ridiculous that they worry about stuff like that. It shows they [the Marlins organization] don'...
BRAD PENNY Tonight a couple of groundballs got through and it killed me,
BRAD PENNY I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.
PENNY LANCASTER He is doing well and resting comfortably.
PENNY CIRCLE He continues to respond to treatments and is improving every day. He is currently enjoying spending ...
PENNY CIRCLE He continues to do well and is improving daily. His doctors are currently in the process of assessin...
PENNY CIRCLE He is sitting in a chair reading his newspapers and we continue to anticipate a Thursday discharge. ...
PENNY CIRCLE He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.
PENNY CIRCLE He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day. He is sitting in a chair reading his ...
PENNY CIRCLE Based on his age, it is prudent for his initial course of treatment - IV antibiotics - to be done at...
PENNY CIRCLE His pneumonia continues to improve.
PENNY CIRCLE The president is getting out of bed, reading the newspapers and eating well. He is in a good mood an...
PENNY CIRCLE She worked so hard and wanted to get back and have a great senior year. I was so happy that she over...
PENNY DEAN Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parki...
LOUISE PENNY The book itself is not filled with sensational revelations, ... It's filled with a new explanation o...
PENNY JUNOR What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and mo...
PENNY JUNOR I always tell the girls, never take it seriously. If you never take it seriously, you never get hurt...
PENNY LANE President Ford was admitted to Eisenhower Medical Centre in Rancho Mirage with pneumonia. He is doin...
PENNY CIRCLE President Ford was admitted to Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage with pneumonia. He is doin...
PENNY CIRCLE One of the key things is learning which bits of life you don't need to take seriously. Usually far m...
PENNY GRUBB I grew up in the motel business, and it evolved into hotels.
PENNY PRITZKER …believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn’t.
LOUISE PENNY It's ridiculous that they worry about stuff like that. It shows (the Marlins) don't know anything ab...
BRAD PENNY This is not an attack on the Princess of Wales,
PENNY JUNOR Do ever respond to a question without asking another question?
Does it bother you?
No. But...
PENNY REID Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced hers...
LOUISE PENNY Elizabeth called it my mane of hair; I called it my bane of hair. However, it was far worse looking ...
PENNY REID I didn’t like how my body seemed to be intent on sabotaging my brain, especially since my brain wa...
PENNY REID President Gerald R. Ford remains a patient at Eisenhower Medical Center.
PENNY CIRCLE It was only years later that he found out that the princess had been having an affair for months bef...
PENNY JUNOR With this situation here, as long as we had a suspect that had firearms that we knew was shooting at...
PENNY BARTLEY You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.’ In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whet...
LOUISE PENNY He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dar...
LOUISE PENNY In my experience people who have been hurt either pass it on and become abusive themselves or they d...
LOUISE PENNY Most of us are great with change, as long as it was our idea.
LOUISE PENNY Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell ...
LOUISE PENNY Everyday for Lucy's entire dog life Jane had sliced a banana for breakfast and had miraculously drop...
LOUISE PENNY Almost invariably people expected that if you were a good person you shouldn't meet a bad end, that ...
LOUISE PENNY There are four things that lead to wisdom. You ready for them?'
She nodded, wondering when the ...
LOUISE PENNY Living our lives was like living in a long house. We entered as babies at one end, and we exited whe...
LOUISE PENNY Life is loss. But out of that, as the book stresses, comes freedom. If we can accept that nothing is...
LOUISE PENNY Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our...
LOUISE PENNY His theory is that life is loss,’ said Myrna after a moment. ‘Loss of parents, loss of loves, lo...
LOUISE PENNY The fault lies with us, and only us. It’s not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it’s definit...
LOUISE PENNY They lead "still" lives, waiting. - Myrna Landers

Waiting for what? - Armand Gamache
LOUISE PENNY Most of us are great with change, as long it was our idea. But change imposed from the outside can s...
LOUISE PENNY Abby Hoffman said we should all eat what we kill. That would put an end to war.
LOUISE PENNY I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle t...
LOUISE PENNY Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it...
LOUISE PENNY Three Pines wasn’t on any tourist map, being too far off any main or even secondary road. Like Nar...
LOUISE PENNY They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did...
LOUISE PENNY Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile...
LOUISE PENNY Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world ...
LOUISE PENNY I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and gett...
LOUISE PENNY I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. ...
LOUISE PENNY Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world...
LOUISE PENNY Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a pe...
LOUISE PENNY Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our...
LOUISE PENNY The hyping of disabled athletes into superhuman status by Channel 4 only deepens our wounds, inflict...
PENNY PEPPER We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gu...
PENNY MARSHALL Grief was dagger-shaped and sharp and pointed inward. It was made of fresh loss and old sorrow. Rend...
LOUISE PENNY • …transferring her hunger to eat into a hunger to hurt. He didn’t turn round. She knew she sh...
LOUISE PENNY We plan to go full steam ahead.
PENNY LARSEN I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; ...
PENNY PRITZKER And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you’ve been assigned...
PENNY REID if it’s within your power to give another person great joy at little or no expense to yourself— ...
PENNY REID I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my...
PENNY JORDAN When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.
PENNY REID It was a careworn face. But most of the lines, if followed back like a trail, would lead to happines...
LOUISE PENNY I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the pr...
PENNY PRITZKER I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?
PENNY MARSHALL What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and ...
PENNY PRITZKER Certainly when we talk about beach parking, when we talk about accessibility to the beach, improving...
PENNY TAYLOR We're still a good team. I just think they're exceptionally good.
PENNY GEINGER In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though h...
LOUISE PENNY Because knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation.
PENNY REID I started CPR on him and he came back.
PENNY BROWN I don't startle easily.
PENNY MARSHALL With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.
JOE PENNY Girls are better at this sort of labour, often called 'emotional labour', not because there's anythi...
LAURIE PENNY He was drawn to the edge of things. To the places old mariners knew, and warned, “Beyond here be m...
LOUISE PENNY The reason Armand Gamache could go there was because it wasn't totally foreign to him. He knew it be...
LOUISE PENNY …the pain of neuralgia…she knew what they thought. That she was cold. Couldn't feel. But in fact...
LOUISE PENNY Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadne...
LOUISE PENNY My internal temper tantrum tirade continued: But attracting and holding the interest of someone like...
PENNY REID Gamache knew people were like homes. Some were cheerful and bright, some gloomy. Some could look goo...
LOUISE PENNY I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?”…”Despair,” said Finne...
LOUISE PENNY …it’s not the truth about others that will set you free, but the truth about yourself.
LOUISE PENNY I just sit where I'm put, composed
of stone and wishful thinking:
that the deity who kills...
LOUISE PENNY That's one area where we differ from the rest of Alberta. It didn't become the huge problem here tha...
LANCE PENNY It really started to become a problem near Edson about 10 years ago.
LANCE PENNY The stuff they're smoking today is far more powerful than when I was running around being a hippie. ...
LANCE PENNY Alcohol is probably the easiest substance to abuse, because the potential is there. It's legal, and ...
LANCE PENNY Certainly that's what we see in our area as well. Marijuana is as insidious as alcohol.
LANCE PENNY It doesn't matter where you are, there's a core base population of 12 to 20 per cent who will abuse ...
LANCE PENNY Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your a...
LOUISE PENNY Sometimes they will return because they have been successful at that place. They feel less risk.
PENNY BARTLEY We played hard, but we just couldn't get over the hump. We had a great season, but I think we got a ...
PENNY GIENGER Both teams were pretty tight, because this was a big game. There were lots of fouls, but this was a ...
PENNY GEINGER I feel great. I can't wait for the season to start.
PENNY HARDAWAY They said that the MDOT decision on the bridge caused the problem and they should also be part of th...
PENNY HILL People are attending online from all over the world. Israel, Austria, Australia, Netherlands, US, Ca...
PENNY HAYNES It was definitely a No. 1 playing a No. 4. We knew they could shoot from outside.
PENNY MOAK Despite the poor start, we stuck together. A lot of teams would have fallen apart but we stayed with...
PENNY TAYLOR Everybody is competing for graduate students and any way that you can facilitate making it easy for ...
PENNY WRIGHT Not everything needed to be brought into the light, he knew. Not every truth needed to be told.
LOUISE PENNY The bistro was his secret weapon in tracking down murderers. Not just in Three Pines, but in every t...
LOUISE PENNY I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chas...
BRIE LARSON Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
DOUG LARSON The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
DOUG LARSON A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
DOUG LARSON The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
DOUG LARSON Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing ...
DOUG LARSON The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a...
GARY LARSON My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and ther...
GARY LARSON I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
GARY LARSON Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
GARY LARSON I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting...
GARY LARSON I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
GARY LARSON On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
GARY LARSON I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a...
GARY LARSON The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
GARY LARSON This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
GARY LARSON The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in...
GARY LARSON I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
GARY LARSON A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categ...
GARY LARSON People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folk...
GARY LARSON I don't think we made any mistakes. But from a public relations perspective, it wasn't properly hand...
AL LARSON I hear different things from different schools. It is kind of a mixture, but it is all anecdotal stu...
AL LARSON Communication was tough, but we always sensed there was a feeling of appreciation. There was always ...
AL LARSON We had a generator with us for lights. Even so, half the guys slept outside because it was cooler. T...
AL LARSON The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flush...
ERIK LARSON Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
DOUG LARSON A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign usi...
ERIK LARSON In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political ...
ERIK LARSON Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
ERIK LARSON To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
DOUG LARSON The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
DOUG LARSON If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing pole...
DOUG LARSON Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
DOUG LARSON The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
DOUG LARSON Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
DOUG LARSON I can't control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's o...
JOHNATHAN LARSON Anger always comes from frustrated expectations
ELLIOTT LARSON Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Lar...
DOUG LARSON If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
DOUG LARSON The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
KIRBY LARSON A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
DOUG LARSON The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
DOUG LARSON It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions...
KIRBY LARSON The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
DOUG LARSON The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
DOUG LARSON I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways ...
BRIE LARSON I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, ...
BRIE LARSON I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
ERIK LARSON I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're...
BRIE LARSON We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order...
JOHN LARSON