Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature and Romanian culture in general. Along with focusing on the literature of the countries the Danube traversed (with an emphasis on Romania), we printed work that interested us from the banks of the Seine: French and French-Romanian authors like Cioran and Fondane. We dedicated our last edition to surrealism and Esthetic Onirisme.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Silence is the wit of fools.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Smell is a word, perfume is literature.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The concentrate in areas like social studies, literature, and art - where opinion reigns supreme. And I find their opinions almost universally appalling.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date and authoritatively written introduction for students and practitioners of NMR.

So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.