
Top 20 Arthur Quiller-couch Quotes
#1. I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.
Gavin Hood
#2. There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.
Curt Flood
#3. If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
#4. Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.
Jeff Minter
#5. Bluh-huh-huh Minho groaned, a shudder of repulsion, like he'd just stepped in a pile of klunk.
James Dashner
#6. Just go on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get the thrill of the story, for which you wait, they will be asking more questions, and pertinent ones, than you are able to answer.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
#7. I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
#8. We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
#9. In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin to write a book, I do not know how it will come out, what it will say in the end. If I already did, I wouldn't need to write it."
Thomas L. Dumm
#10. At Coucy's level, men and women hawked and hunted and carried a favorite falcon, hooded, on the wrist wherever they went, indoors or out - to church, to the assizes, to meals. On occasion, huge pastries were served from which live birds were released to be caught by hawks unleashed in the banquet
Barbara W. Tuchman
#11. You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
#12. Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.
Daisy Ridley
#13. O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
#14. We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.
Eydie Gorme
#15. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#16. I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
Brett Dennen
#17. Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
John Dryden
#18. A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.
Craig Clevenger
#19. It's hard to keep a straight face when I just wanna smile- Fun.
Fun
#20. Trust in good verse then:
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
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