Quotes about literature
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
literature
We are so very 'umble.
literature weapons
My weapon is literature Chinua Achebe
literature easy teach
I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
literature behemoth bigs
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. David Mitchell
literature computer internet
The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. Dave Barry
literature stones teeth
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
literature genes type
A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
literature enough bigs
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
literature language speak
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. David Quammen
literature disease molecules
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'. Kurt Vonnegut
literature reader
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. Charles Kuralt
literature lifetime watergate
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure. Bob Woodward
literature information suggestions
Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
literature operations evidence
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
literature trouble deals
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
literature places-to-go needs
There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself. Edward Hirsch
literature occupation merit
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions. David Hume
literature very-happy walkers
I am very, very happy for Alice Walker. Audre Lorde
literature belief instantaneous
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
literature universal-love kinky
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
literature why-not sexuality
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
literature gods-will
God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. Edwin Louis Cole
literature gone cry
Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
literature rewards reactions
You don't reward reaction; you reward results.
literature bears yoke
The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.