Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes

The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 21, 1863 - May 12, 1944

Topics

LibraryTragedyRealTasteLeisure

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.

John Hurt

WorkMeYouLazinessKnowImportant

Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we'll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost.

Ann McLane Kuster

CompetitionFindNewWillMoreCost

I dreamed really big when I was little.

Amber Riley

LittleBigReallyDreamed

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

Steven Spielberg

LifeCrazyFeelSeeingWrongEdgy

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

Lita Ford

AttitudeLookShoeMoreOpposed

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

Dino De Laurentiis

LoveWorldEveningFriendsYouGo

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

Drew Carey

WorkCompetitionPeopleBetterLike

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Christopher Reeve

StandSaidWillNeverPrediction

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Corazon Aquino

LifeLiveDeathDieMeaningfulThan

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

Woody Allen

SuicideNextCommitArmenianTried

When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it.

Peter Morgan

DeathQueenMeWritingPrincess

I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.

Tyson Chandler

MeFashionSmallClothesPersonWay

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