Quotes about lit
literature pounds inability
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Ezra Pound
literature decay decline
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
literature faces authority
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. Euripides
literature parliament
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
literature helping judgment
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
littles kind psychologist
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing. Francis Ford Coppola
literature raw-materials materials
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted. Francine Prose
literature occasions
There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
littles puppy economics
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy. Frances Perkins
literature fame warhol
Andy Warhol made fame more famous. Fran Lebowitz
literature want firsts
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
literature stealing wells
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. George Orwell
littles
I've always been a little soft. I like to eat. Chris Pratt
littles sides why-not
Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side? Chris LeDoux
littles ordinary done
I always like doing things that no one's ever done before. Doing things a little out of the ordinary. Chris Jericho
literature sound doe
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don`t speak our language, these folks coming from other places - it sounds identical to what you are saying about Muslims now. It really does. Chris Hayes
literature virtue great-gatsby-important
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. F. Scott Fitzgerald
littles enough knows
I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...
littles way persons
Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.
literature ordinary vegetarian
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
littles too-much enough
A little too much is just enough for me. Jean Cocteau
literature slavery politics
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. Frederick Douglass
literature silent slave
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
literature individualism spite
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. George Eliot
literature freedom-of-the-press presses
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it. Ferdinand Mount
littles denied
I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. Fernando Pessoa
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