"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth." — Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, born August 20, 1901
"I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so." — Harriet Quimby, American pilot, born May 11, 1875
"Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted." — Anna Quindlen, American journalist, born 1952
"If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it." — Anna Quindlen, American journalist, born 1952
"If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life." — Anna Quindlen, American journalist, born 1952
"If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap." — AAnna Quindlen, American journalist, born 1952
"In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum." — Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor, born 1915
"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience." — Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor, born 1915
"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them." — Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor, born 1915
"Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung in the air instead of on a piece of paper. Dancing was a grand equation. One side was sound, the other movement. The dancer's job was to make them equal." — Julia Quinn, American author, born 1970
"I, my military ID number 30743, retired general in the Israel Defense Forces, consider myself to be a soldier in the army of peace today." — Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, born March 1, 1922
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." — Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, died March 28, 1943
"Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!" — Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, born April 1, 1873
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end." — Gilda Radner, American comedian, died May 20, 1989