Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Richard Hooker

Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.

Richard Dawkins

Scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

H. Hunt

He will talk about humans as innately violent and innately altruistic, both.

Romeo Dallaire

Are all humans human? Or are some more human than others?

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Zosia Mamet

I am a private human.

Walter Gilbert

Here is a human being; it's me!

Bruce Alberts

In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.

Ian Wilmut

I think now to contemplate using our present technique with humans would be quite inhuman,