All Quotes

Punctuality is the soul of business.
‐‐ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
‐‐ Simon Mawer

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Punisher is scary; he should be scary.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.
‐‐ John Yoo

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
‐‐ Ross Perot

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.
‐‐ Moby

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.
‐‐ Bill Bennett

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
‐‐ Barbara Deming

Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.
‐‐ Gene Green

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

Punishment is lame, but it comes.
‐‐ George Herbert

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
‐‐ Elizabeth Fry

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
‐‐ John Ruskin

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
‐‐ Bruno Bettelheim

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.
‐‐ Teju Cole

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.
‐‐ Jo Brand

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.
‐‐ Justin Sane

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
‐‐ Jello Biafra

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.
‐‐ Mike Watt

Punk music is rebellious.
‐‐ Theophilus London

Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on.
‐‐ John Hurt

Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.
‐‐ Jeff Ament

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
‐‐ Tre Cool

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
‐‐ Iggy Pop

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.
‐‐ Dexter Holland

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
‐‐ Greg Ginn

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
‐‐ Al Jourgensen

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.
‐‐ Justin Sane

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.
‐‐ Dexter Holland

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
‐‐ Malcolm Mclaren

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
‐‐ David Byrne

Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.
‐‐ Steve Winwood

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
‐‐ John Lydon

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
‐‐ Jello Biafra

Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
‐‐ Gary Kemp

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong

Puns are a form of humor with words.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.
‐‐ Darrell Royal