Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Greg Moore

This is a very peculiar year for flu.

John Bankhead

It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Lytton Strachey

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

Henri Matisse

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

Wallace Stevens

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

Wallace Stevens

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Walter Benjamin

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

Walter Benjamin

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

Virginia Woolf

literature is the record of our discontent.

Virginia Woolf

That complete statement which is literature.

Virginia Woolf

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

Virginia Woolf

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

Wallace Stevens

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

Rudyard Kipling

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

Publilius Syrus

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

John Keble

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

Lisa Gansky

Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership

Emma Goldman

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Gabrielle Roy

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

John Dryden

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.