Top 1200 Great Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

Have no regrets. Every relationship leads you to where you're meant to be. Learn to be comfortable with being alone. Learn to be comfortable with saying no to people; we put everybody else before ourselves. Read great literature; don't get all your information from TV. Define your moral code - nobody else is going to give you that. Find it yourself. Keep asking questions, keep challenging. You don't have to conform. Rebellion creates character. And, as my mother always said to me, "Don't let anyone break your spirit!"

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices, rather than those which oppose them; and in cases where this tendency is very strong, the only effect of great learning will be to supply the materials which may corroborate old errors and confirm old superstitions. In our time such instances are not uncommon; and we frequently meet with men whose erudition ministers to their ignorance, and who, the more they read the less they know.

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.

Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.