Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Scott Turow

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In true prose everything must be underlined.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

Liev Schreiber

You should never ask actors about politics.

Cate Blanchett

There's very little reason in politics these days.

Milton Friedman

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

Mitch McConnell

Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Mitt Romney

Rick, I'll tell you what. Ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?

R. Kelly

Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.

Joseph Sobran

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.