Quotes about lit
literature riches distinction
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. F. Scott Fitzgerald
literature quitting whistling
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
literature spoil
The victor belongs to the spoils.
literature firsts sin
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
literature down-and bits
I put the words down and push them a bit. Evelyn Waugh
littles world cynicism
A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him. Evan Esar
littles watches calm
Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less. Esther Hicks
literature subjects
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. Ernest Hemingway
literature architecture baroque-music
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
littles way used
The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now Ethel Merman
literature thrillers
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. Graham Greene
littles hearing eras
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling. Harold Wilson
littles
I'm little but I'm old. Harper Lee
littles divine critters
Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine. Gregory Maguire
literature compare sane
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend. Homer
littles lost-everything spirit
Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost. Igor Sikorsky
literature rhyming rhyme
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it. Howard Nemerov
literature narrative argument
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
literature telling-stories modern
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
literature may pages
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
literature world spirit
The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
littles virtue economy
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! Horace
littles suits action
Those that are little, little things suit.
littles stink series
When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you. Hank Azaria
littles might india
I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now. Gore Vidal
literature assuming reasonable
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
literature genius warhol
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
littles obsession obsessed
I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little. Gina Gershon
littles mixing culture
I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures. Gianni Versace
littles thrones moral
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals. Friedrich Nietzsche
literature clients dresses
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. George Bernard Shaw
littles bigs
I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old. Gena Rowlands
littles actors kind
John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.