A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher 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
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
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and… — Sara Teasdale 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
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor,… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on… — Walter Murch 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
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
That's very cool. Absolutely! You want to know where this guy came from, but you also want to know about the relationship… — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The powerful and prominent soar like dragons, the heroic and valiant fight like tigers: but if you look upon them with cool… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
You mean there’s someone out there better than your father? (Quills) No, idiot. My father trained him. Just FYI, my father is… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery 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
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind.… — Hilary Mantel 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
“There is a beautiful consistency about Buzzard; he is a porcupine among men, with his quills always flared. If he won a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various… — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
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
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out. — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. — John Milton Copy Share Image
He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose. — Fred Allen 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
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
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