Quotes about lit
literature spoil
The victor belongs to the spoils. F. Scott Fitzgerald
literature firsts sin
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
literature down-and bits
I put the words down and push them a bit. Evelyn Waugh
littles world cynicism
A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him. Evan Esar
littles watches calm
Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less. Esther Hicks
literature subjects
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. Ernest Hemingway
literature architecture baroque-music
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
littles way used
The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now Ethel Merman
littles boring notes
It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over. Fisher Stevens
literature pay printing
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. Ezra Pound
literature prison-life crime
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. Henry Miller
little-sister littles jace
Kill me, little sister. Kill me and you kill Jace, too. Cassandra Clare
littles way world
There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'. Jeanette Winterson
littles stories short-story
I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled. George Saunders
literature clients dresses
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. George Bernard Shaw
littles actors kind
John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction. Gena Rowlands
literature causes pacifist
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. Fredrik Bajer
littles details little-things
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. Frederick William Faber
literature term representatives
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka
literature body crosses
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
literature world delight
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
littles torment
Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.
literature able willing
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
literature speak
Writers speak stench.
littles little-bit ifs
Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier. Jay Asher
littles earning hardest
Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it. Greg Giraldo
literature knows do-you-know
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it? J. D. Salinger
literature height periods
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. Irwin Shaw
literature
Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature. Frank Darabont
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
littles usual virtue
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue? Jean de la Bruyere
literature prosperity
Prosperity is full of friends. Euripides
littles atoms dogma
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas. Ernst Mach