Quiller Quotes

#1. I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

Jane Fonda

#2. The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.

Elliott Abrams

#3. If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Half my life is in book's written pages.
Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Steven Tyler

#10. It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#11. O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

#12. If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Brian Eno

#13. Discs of umbrellas poured over suburban terraces with the smooth round ebullience of a Chopin waltz. They sat in the distance under the lugubrious dripping elms, elms like maps of Europe, elms frayed at the end like bits of chartreuse wool, elms heavy and bunchy as sour grapes.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#14. Trust in good verse then:
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire.

Arthur Quiller-Couch