Literature Quotes
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.
Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
