Top 1200 Great Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

literature is the record of our discontent.

Where would fashion be without literature?

We take literature too seriously.

Painting taught literature to describe.

Literature is a house with many mansions.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

Some things in literature are inexplicable.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

What I normally do with recording, performing, and touring is my name. It's all on my shoulders. If it's a great show, I'm great. If it's not a great show, I'm not great.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

literature is the last banquet between minds.

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order of things. Counter-claims are made that they are the only living and dynamic studies... Both contentions are wrong. Language, Literature and Philosophy express, reflect and contemplate the world. But it is a world in which men will never be content to stay at rest, and so these disciplines cannot be cut off from the great searching into the nature of things without being deprived of life-blood.

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

In Literature, only trouble is interesting.

I read a lot of war literature.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

I read Russian literature a lot.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

Literature is analysis after the event.

You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

That complete statement which is literature.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

Each person has a literature inside them.

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

My love of literature goes back to my childhood.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

For me especially, I always need that literature medium.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

Smell is a word, perfume is literature.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.