Quotes about lit
littles done christ
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us. Adam Clarke
littles enjoy ifs
All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy. Abraham Lincoln
literature recognition reason
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly. Amy Lowell
littles made irritating
She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little. Ann Brashares
littles affinity
There can be little liking where there is no likeness. Aesop
literature hostile paid
For hostile word let hostile word be paid. Aeschylus
literature forget speak
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
literature fortune rejoice
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
literature born easier
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
literature stories language
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is. Aleksandar Hemon
literature fiction-and-nonfiction bosnians
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
literature fundamentals significant
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
littles know-how knows
He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
littles disappointing masters
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. Alberto Giacometti
literature joyful revelations
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. Alberto Manguel
literature absence
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North Whitehead
literature pseudo strange
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists? Alfred Kazin
literature three beastly
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley
literature literary-devices devices
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
littles palaces furniture
As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.
littles too-much needs
The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work. Alexander MacLaren
littles study application
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it. Alexander Pope
littles gale driving
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
literature praise satire
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
littles tents hell
You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that. Alex Graves
littles pay privilege
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. Albert Schweitzer
literature ought
I am certainly an ought and not a must. E. M. Forster
literature reverence
Reverence is fatal to literature.
littles little-bit bits
You can always be a little bit better. Drew Brees
littles homework tracy
I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish. Drew Barrymore
literature fantasy underestimate
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. Don DeLillo
littles arizona towns
When I used to drive on the road from L. A., one time in Arizona we went off-road to see what weird little towns are around. Loved Bisbee. Doug Stanhope
literature littles gypsy
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. Douglas William Jerrold