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Robert Quillen

Verni Robert Quillen (25 March 1887 – 9 December 1948) was an American humorist.

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 * Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
 * As quoted in The School Day Begins : A Guide to Opening Exercises, Grades Kindergarten - 12 (1967) by Agnes Krarup

 * He was a writer of paragraphs and short editorials. He always hoped to write something of permanent value, but the business of making a living took most of his time and he never got around to it. In his youth he felt an urge to reform the world, but during the latter years of his life he decided that he would be doing rather well if he kept himself out of jail. … When the last clod had fallen, workmen covered the grave with a granite slab bearing the inscription: "Submitted to the Publisher by Robert Quillen."
 * Self-written "Obituary" (24 March 1932), published 16 years prior to his actual death, as quoted in The Voice of Small-Town America : The Selected Writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948 (2008) by John Hammond Moore, p. 181

 * Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.
 * Quoted by Alexander Woollcott in "The Sage of Fountain Inn," Cosmopolitan magazine (September 1933)

 * Americanism: Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.
 * Paragraphs by Robert Quillen, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 1928. (via Newspapers.com)

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Sherlock Holmes
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 * finish verifying the wording
 * find the abbr. and apply them to sources
 * interwikilink?

More on Sherlock Holmes
Hello, Kerowyn. I see that in editing the Sherlock Holmes page last January you left a note asking that the arrangement of the quotes be left untouched. Since then Jeff Q has argued on Talk:Sherlock Holmes that it would be more in keeping with Wikiquote practice for the quotes to be arranged by book, rather than by theme. I must say, I entirely agree with the points he made, and I'd like to set about re-formatting the page on more conventional WQ lines. However I obviously wouldn't want to do that if you felt strongly enough about the arrangement to revert my changes. How do you feel about this? Antiquary 21:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:The Last Samurai

Cleanup tag
Cleanup tag: Quotes marks, dialogue sections blended with individual quotes, no external links, categories, taglines, cast, need better intro, writer. ~ UDScott 13:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Are all those extra-infos abotu the movie really necessary, given the link to the Wikipedia article? --Koveras 15:15, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I've made a major overhaul of the contents, but the dialogue section still needs to be sorted chronologically. --Koveras 13:39, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Katsumoto and Algren section
I think their dialogues should be put into an extra section because they are central to the plot and philosophy of the movie. --Koveras 13:39, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Duke Ellington

'''My name is Raïssa and I have great admoration and respect for the jazz great Duke Ellington. I just don't see anyone else here that is.'''

Suite of 6 pieces for the Queen
I have recently crashed a master class at the university of toronto where rare footage of the jazz greats were shown. The material was an incredible collection of great performances of masters of past and present, and among it, there was a video clip of Duke Ellington playing a piece from something he recorded for the Queen... in the video he only mentioned that he spoke to the queen about how marvellous a certain structure of hers was and that perhaps music could be made in it (I didn't take notes on the name of the place, but I assume it was a palace or something). Her majesty the Queen granted his musing and I guess he played and recorded in privacy at this place. The piece he played was apparently one of the six he recorded. The recording remains in the Queen's possession... I don't know how often she listens to it, but I was wondering if anyone knew anymore about this and if this recording has been released for the public.

thank you.

Unsourced

 * If you can provide a precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to.

 * There are two kinds of music, the good kind and the other kind. I like both.
 * A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
 * Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
 * Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
 * Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
 * I am a bandleader and I am a composer. I am not a teacher.
 * I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.
 * I don’t pursue anything. The only thing I always answer is my own impulse.
 * I like any and all of my associations with music— writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
 * I live with music.
 * I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
 * Quoted (but not sourced) in George Thomas Simon's The Best of the Music Makers (1979); Ellington's response to being asked how he felt about being excluded from some of the top jazz venues because of his race. --Hughh (talk) 00:06, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I’m a telephone freak, the greatest invention since peanut brittle.
 * I’m the world’s worst disciplinarian. There’s too much responsibility in being a leader! You have to have the dignity and authority of a leader, and that’s all so heavy!
 * Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven’t; there’s no proof of it.
 * Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
 * My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
 * My biggest kick in music—playing or writing—is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?
 * Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
 * On being asked to compose sacred music, recalled on his death.
 * Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
 * The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
 * There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
 * There is no art when one does something without intention.
 * You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
 * Jazz is music-Swing is business.
 * A man is a god in ruins.
 * A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
 * A problem is your chance to do your best.
 * Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
 * By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
 * Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
 * Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
 * Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
 * I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
 * It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
 * Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
 * My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
 * Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
 * On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
 * People do not retire. They are retired by others.
 * Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
 * The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
 * There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.
 * There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
 * You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
 * I don’t need time, I need a deadline.

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