Quotes about lit
literature decay decline
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. Ezra Pound
literature faces authority
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. Euripides
literature parliament
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
literature helping judgment
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
littles kind psychologist
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing. Francis Ford Coppola
literature raw-materials materials
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted. Francine Prose
literature occasions
There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
literature world born
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born? Jeff Vandermeer
littles
I have arranged my little life. Jean Rhys
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 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.
literature fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is the very literature of change. Frederik Pohl
literature causes pacifist
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. Fredrik Bajer
littles details little-things
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. Frederick William Faber
literature term representatives
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka
literature body crosses
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
literature world delight
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?