What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.


Irving Penn

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Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.
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We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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Ques eso? Queso?
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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
PENN JILLETTE
America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to...
PENN JILLETTE
'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that every...
PENN JILLETTE
To delay justice, is injustice.
WILLIAM PENN
Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
PENN JILLETTE
As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.
WILLIAM PENN
If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . ...
WILLIAM PENN
Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell
WILLIAM PENN
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the exi...
PENN JILLETTE
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double...
PENN JILLETTE
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird ki...
PENN JILLETTE
I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week pr...
PENN JILLETTE
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same col...
PENN JILLETTE
I am a Justin Timberlake fan.
SEAN PENN
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
WILLIAM PENN
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
WILLIAM PENN
What we've seen over the past few months is a very gradual recovery in retail sales. We're likely to...
MICHAEL PENN
Retail sales have shown tentative signs of a modest recovery from weak levels, but in our view a con...
MICHAEL PENN
Concerns over (higher energy prices) feeding into higher wages have so far not materialized, which h...
MICHAEL PENN
There is a real difference in mentality. Consumers from poorer European countries are more cautious ...
MICHAEL PENN
Things are looking better on the industrial side. The third quarter looks quite strong overall and t...
MICHAEL PENN
Koizumi indicated clearly that he intends to step
down next year. I have no reason to doubt hi...
MICHAEL PENN
Mr. Hollywood, Jr. 1947,
MICHAEL PENN
Overall, the picture for the consumer in the U.K. does remain quite weak.
MICHAEL PENN
Over all, the picture for the consumer in the U.K. does remain quite weak.
MICHAEL PENN
When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mist...
SEAN PENN
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rule...
WILLIAM PENN
Friendship . . . is an Union of Spirits, a Marriage of Hearts, and the Bond thereof Vertue.
WILLIAM PENN
Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.
WILLIAM PENN
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patient...
WM. PENN
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps wit...
PENN JILLETT
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life...
PENN JILLETTE