List Of Literature Quotes

Dan Rather Is Guilty Of Not Being Skeptical Enough About A Story That Was Politically Loaded.

Jobs That Cannot Be Delivered Must Never Be Promised. It's Unfair To Raise People's Hopes That Way.

You Could Put On Monkeys Jumping Up And Down And Get Bigger Numbers Than Msnbc.

If The Americans Go In And Overthrow Saddam Hussein And It's Clean, He Has Nothing, I Will Apologize To The Nation, And I Will Not Trust The Bush Administration Again.

Lotsa People Want To Hurt Me. That's The Price You Pay For Being A Big Mouth.

Americans Will Respect Your Beliefs If You Just Keep Them Private.

This Country Is A Better Place Because Fox News Has Succeeded.

It Is Unfair To Blame Man Too Fiercely For Being Pugnacious; He Learned The Habit From Nature.

New York, The Nation's Thyroid Gland.

From Now Until The End Of Time No One Else Will Ever See Life With My Eyes, And I Mean To Make The Best Of My Chance.

Why Do They Put The Gideon Bibles Only In The Bedrooms, Where It's Usually Too Late...?

The Misfortunes Hardest To Bear Are These Which Never Came.

Only The Sinner Has The Right To Preach.

Lots Of Times You Have To Pretend To Join A Parade In Which You're Not Really Interested In Order To Get Where You're Going.

We Cannot Make Good News Out Of Bad Practice.

No One Can Terrorize A Whole Nation, Unless We Are All His Accomplices.

The Speed Of Communications Is Wondrous To Behold. It Is Also True That Speed Can Multiply The Distribution Of Information That We Know To Be Untrue.

Few Of The Great Works Of Ancient Greek Literature Are Easy Reading.

It Is Doubtless One Of Aristotle's Great Services That He Conceived So Clearly The Truth That Literature Is A Thing That Grows And Has A History.

There's Always A Host Of Voices You're Inspired By. I Love Don Delillo, And I Love Isaac Bashevis Singer, And I Love Beckett, And I Love Pinter. He's One Of The Funniest Voices In English Literature Since Dickens.

I See Myself As Rhoda, Not Mary Tyler Moore.

The Notion That One Will Not Survive A Particular Catastrophe Is, In General Terms, A Comfort Since It Is Equivalent To Abolishing The Catastrophe.

Human Affairs Are Not Serious, But They Have To Be Taken Seriously.

He Was A Sociologist; He Had Got Into An Intellectual Muddle Early On In Life And Never Managed To Get Out.

Being Good Is Just A Matter Of Temperament In The End.

Socrates Wrote Nothing. Christ Wrote Nothing.

I Have Been Aspiring To Write Some Sort Of Literature For A Long Time.

Literature Could Be Said To Be A Sort Of Disciplined Technique For Arousing Certain Emotions.

Moralistic Is Not Moral. And As For Truth - Well, It's Like Brown - It's Not In The Spectrum. Truth Is So Generic.

All Art Is The Struggle To Be, In A Particular Sort Of Way, Virtuous.

We Shall Be Better Prepared For The Future If We See How Terrible, How Doomed The Present Is.

Perhaps When Distant People On Other Planets Pick Up Some Wavelength Of Ours All They Hear Is A Continuous Scream.

I Have No Models In Japanese Literature. I Created My Own Style, My Own Way.

I Didn't Read So Much Japanese Literature. Because My Father Was A Teacher Of Japanese Literature, I Just Wanted To Do Something Else.

All Art, Literature, And Music Must Be Born In Your Heart's Blood. Art Is Your Heart's Blood.

Virtue Is Not A Chemical Product...it Is A Historic Product, Like Language And Literature; And This Means That If We Cease To Care About It, Cease To Cultivate It, Cease To Transmit Its Funded Values, A Large Part Of It Will Become Meaningless, Like A Dead Language To Which We Have Lost The Key.

I Think Literature Is Best When It's Voicing What We Would Prefer Not To Talk About.

The Vedic Literature Opens To Us A Chapter In What Has Been Called The Education Of The Human Race To Which We Can Find No Parallel Anywhere Else.

Literature Got Me Into This Mess And Literature Is Going To Have To Get Me Out Of It.

Literature Isn't A Moral Beauty Contest. Its Power Arises From The Authority And Audacity With Which The Impersonation Is Pulled Off; The Belief It Inspires Is What Counts.

I Don't Wish To Be A Slave Any Longer To The Stringent Exigencies Of Literature.

Literature Takes A Habit Of Mind That Has Disappeared. It Requires Silence, Some Form Of Isolation, And Sustained Concentration In The Presence Of An Enigmatic Thing.

Explain To Me, Please, Why In Our Literature And Art So Often People Absolutely Incompetent In This Field Have The Final Word.

Literature: Proclaiming In Front Of Everyone What One Is Careful To Conceal From One's Immediate Circle

All Great Popular Literature Today One Day Will Be Seen As Great Literature And Will No Longer Be Seen As Popular Literature.

Most Of The Really Good Literature I've Read In My Life Was Political, Meaning It Was Important - About Something Going On In The History Of The World - Or Contemporary.

Beloved, You Are My Sister, You Are My Daughter, You Are My Face; You Are Me.

Literature, It Seems To Me, Is Wisdom.

My Old English Buddy, John Rackham, Wrote And Told Me What Made Science Fiction Different From All Other Kinds Of Literature - Science Fiction Is Written According To The Science Fiction Method.

Science Fiction Is The Very Literature Of Change.

That's Really What Sf Is All About, You Know: The Big Reality That Pervades The Real World We Live In: The Reality Of Change. Science Fiction Is The Very Literature Of Change. In Fact, It Is The Only Such Literature We Have.

Inequality May Linger In The World Of Material Things, But Great Music, Great Literature, Great Art And The Wonders Of Science Are, And Should Be, Open To All.

The Want Of An International Copy-right Law, By Rendering It Nearly Impossible To Obtain Anything From The Booksellers In The Wayof Remuneration For Literary Labor, Has Had The Effect Of Forcing Many Of Our Very Best Writers Into The Service Of The Magazines And Reviews.

Frenchmen Have An Unlimited Capacity For Gallantry And Indulge It On Every Occasion.

There Is No Praise To Bear The Sort That You Put In Your Pocket.

No Matter What Aristotle And The Philosophers Say, Nothing Is Equal To Tobacco; It's The Passion Of The Well-bred, And He Who Lives Without Tobacco Lives A Life Not Worth Living.

It's True Heaven Forbids Some Pleasures, But A Compromise Can Usually Be Found.

In One Case Out Of A Hundred A Point Is Excessively Discussed Because It Is Obscure; In The Ninety-nine Remaining It Is Obscure Because It Is Excessively Discussed.

I Live On Good Soup, Not On Fine Words.

Oh, How Fine It Is To Know A Thing Or Two.

He Who Follows His Lessons Tastes A Profound Peace, And Looks Upon Everybody As A Bunch Of Manure.

It Will Be Found, In Fact, That The Ingenious Are Always Fanciful, And The Truly Imaginative Never Otherwise Than Analytic.

True, Heaven Prohibits Certain Pleasures; But One Can Generally Negotiate A Compromise.

There's Nothing Quite Like Tobacco: It's The Passion Of Decent Folk, And Whoever Lives Without Tobacco Doesn't Deserve To Live.

In Criticism I Will Be Bold, And As Sternly, Absolutely Just With Friend And Foe. From This Purpose Nothing Shall Turn Me.

Isn't The Greatest Rule Of All The Rules Simply To Please?

There Are Pretenders To Piety As Well As To Courage.

All Which Is Not Prose Is Verse; And All Which Is Not Verse Is Prose.

I Want To Be Distinguished From The Rest; To Tell The Truth, A Friend To All Mankind Is Not A Friend For Me.

I Feed On Good Soup, Not Beautiful Language.

Reason Is Not What Decides Love.

I Have The Fault Of Being A Little More Sincere Than Is Proper.

I Have, Indeed, No Abhorrence Of Danger, Except In Its Absolute Effect - In Terror.

If You Make Yourself Understood, You're Always Speaking Well.

Don't Appear So Scholarly, Pray. Humanize Your Talk, And Speak To Be Understood.

Unreasonable Haste Is The Direct Road To Error.

Of All Follies There Is None Greater Than Wanting To Make The World A Better Place.

Once Upon A Midnight Dreary, While I Pondered Weak And Weary.

My Interest In Gospel Music And Liturgical Art And Biblically-inspired Literature Has Nothing To Do With Organised Religion And Everything To Do With Human Beings Trying To Figure Out Their Place On This Planet.

All Men Are Not Created Equal But Should Be Treated As Though They Were Under The Law.

I Just Wish We Knew A Little Less About His Urethra And A Little More About His Arms Sales To Iran.

I Don't Pick Subjects As Much As They Pick Me.

Computers May Save Time But They Sure Waste A Lot Of Paper. About 98 Percent Of Everything Printed Out By A Computer Is Garbage That No One Ever Reads.

Nothing In Fine Print Is Ever Good News.

That Is The One Unforgivable Sin In Any Society. Be Different And Be Damned!

My Husband Had An Education. He Had A Degree In Literature. I Married Into A Camp Of Literary Types.

I Rarely Ever Put My Head Above The Rampart And See Where This Big Lumbering Behemoth Called 'global Literature' Is Going.

Iliad By Homer Is One Of The Great Stories In Literature. And I Thought Its Themes Really Resonated Today, Whether That Was My Projection Or Homer's Intentions. It Didn't Seem Like We Had Come Very Far.

I Think All Writers Of My Age Who Are Brought Up On Films Probably By The Age Of 16 Have Seen Many More Films Than They Have Read Classics Of Literature. We Can't Help But Be Influenced By Film. Film Has Got Some Great Tricks That It's Taught Writers.

A Man Convinced Against His Will Is Not Convinced.

A Pessimist Is A Man Who Looks Both Ways When He Crosses The Street.

Nobody Can Be Perfect Unless He Admits His Faults, But If He Has Faults How Can He Be Perfect?

As A Matter Of Fact Is An Expression That Precedes Many An Expression That Isn't.

Committees Have Become So Important Nowadays That Subcommittees Have To Be Appointed To Do The Work.

Slump, And The World Slumps With You. Push, And You Push Alone.

There Are Two Kinds Of Egotists: Those Who Admit It, And The Rest Of Us

There Can Be No Freedom In Art And Literature Where The Government Determines Who Shall Create Them.

Literature Exists Because The World Isn't Enough.

As Far As I Have Been Able To Understand, The Japanese Seem To Keep Things Close To The Vest. Friendly But Remote And Polite To The Point Of Being Invisible. It Is In The Music, Literature, Film And Art That The Japanese Really Seem To Express Themselves.

I Feel The Written Word, Poetry And Literature Is Just One Of The Most Beautiful Things That Human Beings Do. So We Have To Fight For It.