Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Virginia Woolf

literature is the record of our discontent.

Vladimir Nabokov

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

William O. Douglas

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Joseph Addison

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Joseph Addison

The post of honour is a private station.

Jose Saramago

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

Jose Carreras

I've always said that music is like literature.

Jose Bergamin

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Richelle Mead

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Umberto Eco

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

Truman Capote

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

William Sanderson

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

Robert Rubin

I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say.

Robert Peel

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Vikram Seth

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Young Jeezy

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Yoko Ono

Music is like my security blanket.

Ennio Morricone

Music is an experience, not a science.

Jimmy Page

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.