Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Joyce

(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

Naguib Mahfouz

Without literature my life would be miserable.

Randall Terry

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

Shimon Peres

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

Lesley Garrett

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

Kate Mulgrew

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

Paul de Man

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Jonathan Adler

People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.

Nick Johnson

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

Richard Owen

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Richard Jenkins

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Richelle Mead

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

William S. Burroughs

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

William J. H. Boetcker

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

Will Cuppy

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,

Richard Rorty

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

Samuel Richardson

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

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.

George Andrew Olah

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

James Russell Lowell

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Lord Byron

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

John Cheever

The short story is the literature of the nomad.