Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Amos Oz

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

Amos Oz

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Amos Oz

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

Sylvia Browne

My master's degree was in English literature.

Susan Sontag

Literature usually begets literature.

Susan Sontag

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

Susan Sontag

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Mike Degory

Coach is trying to instill core values, trust. We're becoming more of a team. Eight months ago, it wasn't really like this. Will it pay off in September? I hope so.

Hamse Warfa

So you are becoming their problem solver. You go and hear all of their problems.

Christina Norman

We're always looking to inject excitement and energy into the show and Miami has a lot to offer. As far as celebrities, Miami is becoming a destination.

Jim Ewan

We have quite a few new players but they have worked hard. Our region is becoming more difficult, but we feel we are right where we were last season at this time.

James Comey

Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.

Abraham Verghese

I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.

Al Jarreau

I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.

Billy Beane

I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and 'Moneyball''s one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.

Belva Lockwood

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

Corey Brewer

You would have thought after a while they would have caught on. But we just kept running it.

Erik Hassle

I spent 2010-2012 in Stockholm, trying to figure things out. I caught up on life! At the end of 2012, the relationship I was in ended, and I took the first plane to L.A. where my Swedish label has been setting up base. I felt so much more inspired to write and record than I had ever been, and the songs just started coming.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

Chris Baca

We stayed with them for 30 minutes even though we had only 10 players on the field. But in overtime it may have caught up with us.

Doug Schauer

We were just caught up in the moment. They come at you so hard. We were just trying to play too fast.

Johnny Cash

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Angelo Crowell

On the first one, we got caught on a quick snap. On the other we just weren't gap sound. You have to control your gap.

Janice Hahn

Certainly now, after Katrina, I don't think we want to be caught flat-footed,

William Butler Yeats

Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unaging intellect