Quotes about literature
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. Anthony Trollope
literature pieces fellows
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces. Anthony Trollope
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. Dean Koontz
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 architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill
literature consideration method
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. Bryant H. McGill
literature able comfort
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst. Bryant H. McGill
literature appreciated rudeness
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. Bryant H. McGill
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature needs humans
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. Edwidge Danticat
literature today weakness
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. Edward Young
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 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. Brit Hume
literature cables viewers
We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel. Brit Hume
literature chess enormous
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. Boris Spassky
literature facts events
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it. Arthur Conan Doyle
literature faces mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle
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 world disease
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. Jared Diamond
literature life-is hell
Without literature, life is hell. Charles Bukowski
literature
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out. Carl Sandburg
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. Carl Sandburg
literature wonder puzzled
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. Carl Sandburg
literature guidance enough
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. Carl Sandburg
literature science terrible
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science Samuel Butler
literature marxist socialist
When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature. Adolf Hitler
literature recognition reason
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly. Amy Lowell
literature
I'm not going to be lectured to. Ann Coulter
literature periods exciting
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. Doris Lessing
literature events analysis
Literature is analysis after the event. Doris Lessing