Quotes about literature
literature world disease
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. Jared Diamond
literature moments obscure
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one, Arthur Conan Doyle
literature incapability university
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. Anton Chekhov
literature eccentric vodka
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
literature world today
According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience. Barry Sanders
literature may advertising
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. Anthony Trollope
literature poverty misery
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
literature pieces fellows
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
literature majority dean
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. Dean Koontz
literature comic novel
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
literature proportion interpretation
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes. Dana Gioia
literature castles fixed
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead. Bram Stoker
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
literature make-it-happen happens
You have to make it happen.
literature needs humans
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. Edwidge Danticat
literature today weakness
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. Edward Young
literature tough environment
This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody. Brit Hume
literature chance viewers
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.
literature cables viewers
We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.
literature life-is hell
Without literature, life is hell. Charles Bukowski
literature midnight weak
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Edgar Allan Poe
literature danger terror
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
literature
The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
literature anticipation remember
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
literature belief study
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare. Aubrey Beardsley
literature shapes degrees
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen
literature outcomes language
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
literature periods exciting
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. Doris Lessing
literature events analysis
Literature is analysis after the event.
literature marxist socialist
When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature. Adolf Hitler
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
literature
I'm not going to be lectured to. Ann Coulter
literature newspapers
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature. Alphonse de Lamartine