Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

That complete statement which is literature.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.