Quotes about lit
literature prophet historian
The historian is a prophet looking backward. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
literature definitions would-be
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
literature prose
In true prose everything must be underlined.
literature fragments
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
literature feminine treated
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
literature politics ethics
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
literature spirit explosions
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
literature language excellent
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
literature want veils
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
littles
I've seen all the Judd Apatow movies, and I'd love to have a really funny little part in one of them some day. Miranda Cosgrove
littles tomorrow march
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. Peter Stuyvesant
littles facts experts
There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts. Peter Ustinov
literature shirts
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. Peter Bichsel
littles looks dishes
I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook. Penelope Cruz
littles lasts months
Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted. Phil Collins
littles
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. Peter O'Toole
littles bullied oddballs
I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. Peter Jackson
littles activist
I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little. Peter Carey
literature impossible
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. Piers Anthony
literature biographies fiction
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. Rachel Carson
littles begging being-true
With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more. Rabindranath Tagore
littles chance kind
In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life. Q'orianka Kilcher
littles subjects
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. Pythagoras
littles doe done
I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself. Pippa Middleton
literature turns
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Julian Barnes
littles felt moved
By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up. Mackenzie Phillips
literature taste
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society. Madame de Stael
lit candle
Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit. Harbhajan Singh
littles freak bits
I'm a little bit of a control freak. Harlan Coben
literature poet priests
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. Gustave Flaubert
literature
Madame Bovary is myself.
literature innocence gullibility
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. Gilbert K. Chesterton
literature madness wit
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. John Dryden