Top 1200 Literature And Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50.

Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically argue - and when it does, it's deadly dull. But literature can supply the frame within which we come to observe and reason, or it can change our frame in highly significant ways. That's one of the achievements I'd claim for Mann, and for Death in Venice.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.

It's funny because I think that genre literature can be looked down on by literature literature. And I like that! I like being scorned; I like people looking down their noses at us a little bit... It gives us a little chip on our shoulder.

For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task. You know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child's intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find.

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.

Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative.

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of existence.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.