Literature Quotes
Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.
I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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.
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.
If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.
Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not...
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.
It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'