Quotes about literature
literature moral bases
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. Edwin Louis Cole
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 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
I really came to literature through poetry. Cheryl Strayed
literature exciting supper
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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 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
literature may advertising
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. Anthony Trollope
literature poverty misery
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
literature pieces fellows
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
literature castles fixed
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead. Bram Stoker
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 majority dean
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. Dean Koontz
literature comic novel
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
literature proportion interpretation
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes. Dana Gioia
literature berlin topics
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin. Bruce Sterling
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.