Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn’t leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill. — John Florio Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out. — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image