Quotes about literature
literature enchantment kind
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. Honore de Balzac
literature spirit apprehension
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
literature virtuous-woman virtuous
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
literature firsts individual
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place. Herbert Read
literature natural authority
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
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
literature height periods
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. Irwin Shaw
literature illiterate
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. J. D. Salinger
literature knows do-you-know
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
literature forget my-family
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. Lloyd Alexander
literature influence great-literary
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. Manuel Puig
literature taste watches
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
literature common french-literature
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. Lytton Strachey
literature france england
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
literature scripts copying
It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent. Kate Beckinsale
literature study academic
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame. Paul McCartney
literature albums royalty
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques. Martin Bashir
literature might soil
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne
literature print reporters
I started as a print reporter. Jim Lehrer
literature turns know-me
Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.
literature germs
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
literature stuff helping
On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.
literature great-things willing
There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing. George MacDonald
literature genius investment
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times John Burroughs
literature accepting sole
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
literature care wardrobe
And that Michael Irvin would care more about his wardrobe than I would? Lisa Guerrero
literature possibility difficulty
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. Lionel Trilling
literature atrocities institutions
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point. Linda Chavez
literature terrorist behinds
The terrorists hide behind Allah.