List of Topics starting with [Q]

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

Killer yuppies in a soccer-mom car. It did have that certain je ne said quois.

You give the shirt off your back, no questions asked, and you stand alone at the cavernous mouth of your suburban closet - your entire ...

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a ...

Paradox /pera,daks/ noun1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear ...

I asked what he was laughing at. "I was just wondering if it was possible to get any more miserable." He chuckled darkly. "I suppose ...

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

He'd given up squid merchanting when he'd found that the creatures inhabited his dreams, all leggy and cold.

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

There is only one name on the door at Walt Disney Imagineering.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

I'm always really worried about ruining their lives. Especially with people that aren't famous. It's such a massive change. I'm kind of a paranoid wreck. ...

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions.

Keeing busy is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

My mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air ...

Blake is a ready-made patron saint for those wanting to elevate their marginality, dissent, and queerness into strength. The relative futility of Blake's battle during ...

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

Some of us were born to hate and some of us were born to be great.

Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair.

As she sustained wound after wound ... the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.

In all the years that I have lived, the time that I have spent with you has been the most exquisite ... and this moment, ...

If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

I stood there, staring at my clothes. What does a mama wear to her son's funeral? I looked over my wardrobe.There were outfits purchased for ...

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not ...

As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to ...

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations ...

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Maybe it's living back at my parents' house, or perhaps going back to school, but somehow, surrounded by all these reminders from my past, in ...

A release on September 16 quoted the claim of the assistant secretary for labor at OSHA that tests show 'it is safe for New Yorkers ...

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

Geography and history demonstrate that we can never discount Russia. Russia's partial resurgence in our own age following the dissolution of the Soviet Empire is ...

We must change our way of thinking, correct our plans and envision new ways of attaining our goals

The question is there, whther we answer it or not.

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people ...

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

The world we live in is but thickened light.

The density and permanence of the mansion were, of course, at ironic variance with the fact that the quondam master of the house, except for ...

When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the ...

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if ...

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.

In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber's pole - like the bloody towels that once hung ...

Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars each year good, ...

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older ...

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us ...

So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as ...

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces.

Whats up, Q?" asked Gus.Oh, we're just scattering some dead fish about town, breaking some windows, photographing naked guys, hanging out in skyscraper lobbies at ...

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

You're great at fixing things. If anyone could do it, you could. But you can't do this one. You can't fix me. I'm broke.

Need some help? Alex asked, watching me with patronizing eyes. I had to collect myself

Love is the only medicine I believe in.

If we want to understand the distinctive constitution of Europe, we must go back to its religious foundations. For the moral beliefs which Christianity fostered ...

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.

I am said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. About that, of course, I cannot judge because I cannot know. But about the ...

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta!

If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he ...

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 must see that while we are justified by faith apart from works, we are justified by faith unto works.

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

I've spent quite a bit of time in East Africa.

It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.

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 ...

It was funny how none of her classes in library science has prepared her for this sort of thing, dead bodies, staff under suspicion, crazed ...

Feelings are programs; that is, they are learned responses that often have a purpose.

Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever.

My books are inspired by children - sometimes my own. My writing is powered by chocolate - not always my own!

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but ...

If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving ...

There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it ...

Walking, as it were, on a razor's edge,

The one thing I learned is that the Russians are some of the most cunning people on earth. They never do anything without a very ...

When the agony of all the people is heard, nothing will be done.

You deserve to know that I love you, more than I ever intended to, more than I ever thought I could love someone whom I ...

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.

There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds.

I'm a private person.

I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person ...

I'm Qibli, and that's Moon and Kinkajou. Guys, this is Riptide and Serious.

The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that ...

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their ...

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.