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Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Learning Business Alone Impossible

I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day.

Matt Kuchar

Love Day Golf House Talk Him

But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.

Tom Jenkinson

Moment Listen Much Really

It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and astrology as a profession where getting it patently wrong is just not a problem - and also, rather wonderfully, seems to have no adverse affect on their professional standing whatsoever.

Dominic Holland

Finance Problem Down Professional

Atletico know I have a special feeling for the team. I lived the best moment of my career there.

Diego Costa

Moment Best Team Career Know Lived

The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of the Prophet Joseph Smith. I love the Prophet Joseph. I love President Gordon B. Hinckley, who is the prophet of God and holds all the keys of the kingdom at this time, keys which prophets have held in uninterrupted succession since Joseph Smith.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Love God Time Book Jesus Christ

Jack Lemmon always said you can't learn how to act without doing theatre, and I agree with that. Because anyone can do a character for a take, but can you do one for 40 minutes at a time?

Chris Doubek

Character Time Theatre Learn Doing

My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.

Christopher Guest

Music Passion Comedy Doing Acting

I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.

Christy Turlington

Training Run Race Up Year-Round Few

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

Antonio Damasio

Simple Mind Self Attention Minds

I had all these raw, gritty rock records that really inspired me sonically, and so I think everything I listen to when I started writing my own songs kind of came out naturally, and it created this new sound.

Aubrie Sellers

Me Writing Think New Kind Rock

I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.

Shelley Fabares

Strength Kindness Integrity Today Me

I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.

Sherri Shepherd

Love Honesty Lunch Trying New Say