Quotes about literature
literature paper peer-review
...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is! Phil Jones
literature taught easier
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth. Mortimer Adler
literature mess
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it. Philip Roth
literature speech great-speech
A great speech is literature. Peggy Noonan
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 century made
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. John le Carre
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 great-literature bores
Literature bores me, especially great literature John Berryman
literature english-literature austen
There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that. JJ Feild
literature currents should
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature George Ade
literature information working-it
Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control. Joan Didion
literature tables critics
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature. Louis Dudek
literature nostalgia old-time
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good. Lord Byron
literature fortune all-things
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
literature youth fame
Fame is the thirst of youth.
literature sin atonement
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
literature found duty
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
literature definitions pleasure
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. Gene Wolfe
literature language written
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
literature mercy firmness
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
literature return fountain
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
literature majority-and-minority minorities
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. Henrik Ibsen
literature grows mortals
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. Hesiod