Top 1200 Great Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.
Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
Not a word that I have written about Yugoslavia is denounceable, not a single one. It is literature.
What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.
In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.
Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.
As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.
When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment."
God blessed me with a great wife, a great family, and a great coach.
Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.
Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.
The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
Good literature makes your head throb heartlike
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.
Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.
Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.
As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'
Whenever it is inspired by literature a film is elevated and the audience connects.
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
You know this is a great, great country that we live in to be able to play this great game.
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.
I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.
We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Few nations match our rich resource of literature.
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.
If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
I still hold myself and my marriage up very high. I look upon it with great pride, great honor and great memories. I have no regrets.
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.
