Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes
The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
Gary Numan
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
Patrick Marber
When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
Damon Lindelof
If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
Queen Rania of Jordan
Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
Nandan Nilekani
I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
Orlando Bloom
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most startup entrepreneurs unnecessarily spend half their time and give up half their equity in search of funding from angel investors and venture capitalists. Tens of millions of dollars are available to them for free from partners who not only don't want their equity, they don't even want to be paid back.
Jay Samit
I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.
Enrique Vila-Matas
If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.
Hermann Hesse
I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.
Joel Edgerton
The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite.
Arthur Quiller-Couch