Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

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

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

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.

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

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

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

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.

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

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

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