Twyla Tharp

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.

American Dancer

Hilary Mantel

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.

English Writer

Daniel H. Hill

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

American General

Mo Rocca

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

American Writer

Paul Di Filippo

Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?

Walter Murch

The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

American Editor

Oscar Nunez

I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

American Actor

Helen Fisher

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

American Scientist

Christopher Plummer

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Canadian Actor

Jay Dratler

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

American Novelist

Quills were essential writing tools before the rise of modern pens, often seen in historical settings.

Historical Writing

Using 'quill and ink' can evoke a sense of antiquity or traditionalism in literature or art.

Archaic Feel

Quills can represent the concept of writing in cultural symbols and logos.

Cultural Symbol

Quills in animals are primarily for protection; they're not just any spines.

Animal Defense

Unlike some animal defenses, quills do not retract; they're always visible.

Non-Retractable

A quill as a feather tube is central to a bird's flight and insulating abilities.

Structure of Feathers

The hollowness of a quill provides an excellent balance of lightness and strength.

Lightweight Strength

Quills in weaving are not related to writing or animals, but are tools to hold yarn.

Weaving Tool

Understanding the role of a quill in a loom helps in grasping the basics of weaving.

Part of Loom

 tree almost in this emerald green world that you're looking straight up but if you were looking horizontally it's it's there's no ambient light it's pretty dark there's another picture made in fjord land of some animals called sea pens which a reminiscent of the old quill pens but these are like a type of

Crucial Waters PIPE...

 filaments of the protein keratin that grow out of organs known as follicles, which go through cycles of growth and shedding. Across mammalian species, hairs have been modified for numerous purposes, ranging from the soft fluff covering rabbits to the rigid quills protecting porcupines.

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 with comfort otherwise you're gonna get hurt so I think that's what you did he just knew he's probably done it before and it worked for him just went in flattened it picked it up and he enjoyed it that very thick fatty layer on the back that holds all the quills that looked very tasty

Safari Live - Day 202 PIPE...

 quill is the one which used to drill the little holes here on the skin so that they can be able to put some of the traditional ingredients from the plants the powders in order to strengthen some of the people from various tribes so while we are waiting for him to go back

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 composing music I've always felt that building new audiences requires updating the very idea of the composer from someone older guy with wig and a quill pen who's labouring away in isolation to a cultural ambassador and a collaborator who's deeply integrated in the

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 smart to fool around with this small piece those quills may be modified hairs but they are needle-sharp strong and there are plenty of them but the adults know is that porcupine needles can actually pierce the flesh of life and

Porcupine vs. Lions PIPE...

 quills may be modified hairs but they are needle-sharp strong and there are plenty of them what the adults know is that porcupine needles can actually pierce the flesh of life and these

Porcupine vs. Lion PIPE...

 Euler discovered at the time the world's biggest - 1. It's over two billion. He proved it was prime with nothing more than a quill, ink, paper and his mind. You think that's big.

Adam Spencer: Why I fell...

 towards Central I'm afraid her but despite the fact that he has got a beca's porcupine quill in his ear has decided that this direction is not going to work for Tandy