Quotes about literature
literature adultery sexuality
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. Charles Baudelaire
literature melancholy type
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
literature aristocracy ethics
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
literature amusing providing
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
literature today influence
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today. Charles Simic
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 stories guilty
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. Bill O'Reilly
literature belief ifs
Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.
literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
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 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.
literature moral bases
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
literature commodity truth-is
Truth is life's most precious commodity.
literature substitutes fund
Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.
literature committed
You are committed to what you confess.
literature limits boundaries
Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
literature suspects
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. Jane Austen
literature dresses solicitude
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
literature opinion mansfield-park
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
literature matter
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical. Barbet Schroeder
literature moments obscure
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one, Arthur Conan Doyle
literature incapability university
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. Anton Chekhov
literature eccentric vodka
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
literature world today
According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience. Barry Sanders