Top 1200 World Literature Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded in the body's felt-sense of experience and its innate and largely unrecognized wisdom. This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

When I'm writing about complicated subjects, it usually involves a world. It could be the world of Scientology or the world of Al Qaeda, or the world of counter-terrorism.I look for emblematic beasts of burden - what I call "donkeys" - who can carry the reader through this world. They serve a different purpose. Donkeys are not especially interesting or likeable, but they are serviceable. They will take you into this world. The distinction I'm trying to make is: It's not about them. It's about the world.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.