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.

Richard Dawkins

I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.

James Shirley

The honour is overpaid,When he that did the act is commentator.

Norman Foster

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

Buddha

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots

Epictetus

I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?

Nicholas Boileau

Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

Horatio Nelson

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

George Herbert

We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.

Pat Robertson

I've managed stations.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Tom Waits

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.