Quotes by Robert Quillen

About Robert Quillen:

Verni Robert Quillen was an American journalist and humorist who for more than a quarter century was "one of the leading purveyors of village nostalgia" from his home in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. In 2012, his office and library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Robert Quillen

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Robert Quillen

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Robert Quillen

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Robert Quillen

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Robert Quillen

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

Robert Quillen

You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

Robert Quillen

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Robert Quillen

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Quillen
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornMarch 25, 1887
  • DiedDecember 9, 1948
  • ProfessionJournalist