Quotes about lit
literature world enough
Literature exists because the world isn't enough. Fernando Pessoa
littles want boundaries
We want to push mankind's boundaries out a little further. Felix Baumgartner
literature novelists losing
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. Flannery O'Connor
literature young be-young
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
littles brooklyn harsh
Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative. Fernando Torres
literature remember english-literature
Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature. Henry Louis Gates
literature streets
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. Henry Miller
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.
littles causes little-things
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. Henri Frederic Amiel
littles eternity discouraged
It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more. Helen Keller
little-sister littles jace
Kill me, little sister. Kill me and you kill Jace, too. Cassandra Clare
literature parting
In every parting there is an image of death. George Eliot
literature too-much injury
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.
littles modern states
It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.
littles appearance
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
littles facts originality
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
littles
Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie! Geoffrey Chaucer
littles
In love there is but little rest.
littles busy found
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
literature carpentry
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry Gabriel Garcia Marquez
littles function windmills
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill. Franz Liszt
littles
He that hath little is the lesse durtie. George Herbert
littles labour
A little labour, much health.
littles excuse given
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
littles
A little and good fills the trencher.
littles
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
littles great-business
Great businesses turne on a little pinne.
littles
Aske much to have a little.
littles too-much riches
The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.
littles would-be spirit
I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one. J. Cole
littles damn stills
That's what I am; I'm a drip. You still get hydrated, you still get your nutrients, just a little at a damn time. J. B. Smoove
littles sin harm
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival. J. C. Ryle
littles action accounts
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.