Top 1200 Literary Merit Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt
To slacken virtue, and abate her edge,
Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
I never think of people's literary potential when I meet them, but people do audition.
I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.
I wasn't very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.
My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.
Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the time of the Crusaders.
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.
What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.
Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.
God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.
I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.
If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.
I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.
I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
I have high hopes for Renee Ballard's literary life, and it can't start out better than the top of 'USA TODAY''s best-seller list.
Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]
I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it.
My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.
Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
I want to be part of real reality shows, but don't want to do shows where I am told to give more points to one candidate because he/she is from a particular state. We have to judge by merit.
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.
If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
