Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Northrop Frye

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Northrop Frye

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

Norman Ralph Augustine

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

Mo Yan

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Mary Wollstonecraft

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Mark Haddon

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

Moliere

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Robert Buchanan

Clearly, Wal-Mart's fortunes over the next 12 to 18 months hinge on the quality of the job that Eduardo Castro- Wright does. He is the man on the hot seat.

Frank Darabont

It's been a great run of good fortune for me as a writer.

Leon Battista Alberti

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Andriy Shevchenko

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

Sophocles

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

Tacitus

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

Steve Guttenberg

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

Kazeronnie Mak

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is.And knows how to treasure it.

T. S. Eliot

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.