List of Topics starting with [Q]

Santa is like a queen bee. All the elves are his drones, who exist to feed him royal jelly, which I guess would be milk ...

The feeling of the wind, the sound of rushing water, the sense of sunlight breaking through the clouds, the colors of flowers as the seasons ...

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in ...

Nice to see you again, querido. Her flat palms connected with his solid chest. She pushed hard, catching him off guard, knocking him right off ...

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship ...

He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic. The ...

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot ...

There are two ways: my way and the highway.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very ...

Truth I pursued,as Fancy sketch'd the way,And wiser men than I went worse astray.

What is life for? he asks himself. What is my life for?

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

Ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck ...

All I wanted was sex. Just a little freaky sex, every now and then. When the fuck did it get so complicated?" he grumbled.

Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core ...

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually ...

Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand ...

Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.

Africa and Europe responded more sensibly but differently. Life has never been sacred in Africa and those who went sight-seeing on targets got little bleeding-heart ...

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.

Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

The next time you hear someone cite, 'Do not kill' when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, 'Do not ...

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the ...

Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country ...

I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

There are interviewers who try to trip up the candidate," says Hanold. "If you make people do intellectual gymnastics, you're not getting their true self. ...

When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from ...

The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while ...

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. ...

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again.Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain Quaintest thoughts - queerest ...

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

I'm an Igor, thur. We don't athk quethtionth.""Really? Why not?""I don't know, thur. I didn't athk.

People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first ...

This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything

Every man should measure himself by his own standard.[Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]

A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars ...

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

As I grew up I realized, though imperfectly, that I was different from other people, and that the way of life in my home was ...

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with ...

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

What in bloody hell is going on back there?" Angus boomed. "Some kind of cross-species orgy!

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it ...

The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that's true ...

We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge ...

Besides, Mrs. Quesnt, did it never occur to you that we are not changing at all-that rather, we are simply becoming more ourselves?

Yadyatkarma karomi tattadakhilam shambho tavaaraadhanam My Lord Shambo, My Lord Shiva, every act of mine is a prayer in your honour

I'm a comic reader and a manga fan.

Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be ...

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest ...

Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city

Did you know that the chances of being in a plane crash are less than 0.00001 per cent? That means that you're more likely to ...

Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60.

One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people ...

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

Wake up today and shake up the world ... It's a New Year that welcomes you to shine and make your dreams come true.-RVM

The Canadians had Terrell. He was uninfected, in quarantine, and knew nothing.

You can't possibly be thinking of sending him home! He can barely walk." Meg's smile began to slip. Ambulance crews were queuing almost out the ...

We all laced together - a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of ...

The U.K. courts were very clear that Abu Qatada posed a threat to our national security - that's why we were pleased as a government ...

Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to get ...

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of ...

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality ...

Misquotation is quotology's swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It's a mess we must wade into.

The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing ...

I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to ...

An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They ...

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi ...

Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the ...

The paradox of romantic love that what one possesses, one can no longer desire was at work. ...

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I ...

A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications ...

In fact with his low forehead, ornamental quiffs of hair on the temples, lurching walk and perpetual swelling of the right trouser pocket where he ...

Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will ...

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind ...

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

There is no other place on this earth where I feel such a strong sense of being a stranger than in my historic homeland.

I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 ...

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is ...

If you want twenty minutes of quality time with someone you love, schedule three or four hours with him or her one afternoon, and chances ...

Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a ...

This is a trial about watermelons! Watermelons are invertebrate creatures!' cried Quall.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truth, but usually quarell among themselves.

It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing ...

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of ...