Quotes by Robert Quillen

• Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
• There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
• If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
• 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.
• Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
• As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
• Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.