Top 1200 Great Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.
To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.
What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.
There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
Life should imitate romance literature far more often.
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.
Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.
I've got a great family, great career, great friends, and a lot of passions, which make my life interesting and fulfilling every day.
My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.
Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.
The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action.
It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.
You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul.
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.
Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?
Great photos of the great moments always give us a great joy!
Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.
I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'
The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.
I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.
There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.
Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
