Quotes about lit
literature treats esteem
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. Henry David Thoreau
literature oracles calm
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
littles honest honorable
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
littles reputation chaucer
On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.
literature world born
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born? Jeff Vandermeer
littles
I have arranged my little life. Jean Rhys
literature thrillers
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. Graham Greene
littles hearing eras
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling. Harold Wilson
littles
I'm little but I'm old. Harper Lee
littles divine critters
Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine. Gregory Maguire
literature compare sane
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend. Homer
littles lost-everything spirit
Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost. Igor Sikorsky
literature rhyming rhyme
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it. Howard Nemerov
literature narrative argument
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
literature telling-stories modern
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
literature may pages
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
literature world spirit
The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
littles virtue economy
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! Horace
littles suits action
Those that are little, little things suit.
littles stink series
When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you. Hank Azaria
littles might india
I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now. Gore Vidal
literature assuming reasonable
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
literature genius warhol
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
littles obsession obsessed
I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little. Gina Gershon
littles mixing culture
I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures. Gianni Versace
littles bits little-bit
You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else. Harold Ramis
literature feels asks
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. James Branch Cabell
littles little-things strict
One must be strict even in little things. James Boswell
literature sophistry wit
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. Jacques Barzun
littles unnecessary whole-life
I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary. Jack White
littles twisted britain
Britain's such a twisted, weird little place. Graham Norton
literature hills walks
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. Gertrude Stein
literature audience
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.