Quotes about literature
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
Literature and Society in the First Modern Period, 321 B.C. - A.D. 235,
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out. Carl Sandburg
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
literature wonder puzzled
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
literature guidance enough
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
literature architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill
literature consideration method
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
literature able comfort
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
literature appreciated rudeness
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
literature
Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature. Frank Darabont
literature shapes degrees
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen
literature outcomes language
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
literature tough environment
This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody. Brit Hume
literature chance viewers
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.
literature cables viewers
We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.
literature chess enormous
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. Boris Spassky
literature facts events
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. Arthur Conan Doyle
literature faces mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
literature make-it-happen happens
You have to make it happen.
literature midnight weak
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Edgar Allan Poe
literature danger terror
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
literature
The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
literature anticipation remember
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
literature belief study
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare. Aubrey Beardsley
literature joyful revelations
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. Alberto Manguel
literature absence
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North Whitehead
literature pseudo strange
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists? Alfred Kazin
literature three beastly
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley
literature literary-devices devices
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything