#the

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#africa #arab #day #evident #influence

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#amongst #ashamed #breathing #cows #creatures

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#clearest #explanation #failure #female #incompatible

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. ↗

— Robert Quine

#bookstore #brooklyn #drank #got #i

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands. ↗

— Robert Quine

#answered #auditioning #band #bands #days

I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else. ↗

— Robert Quine

#bad #because #been #best #buddy

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. ↗

— Robert Quine

#inherently #like #makes #mathematics #me

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#any #audience #comedian #even #his

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#here #i #kids #parent #these

Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#even #him #i #know #marlon