Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

The little man is still a man.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature.

The medical literature is full of reports going back many years that provide evidence that thyroid medication, used when indicated, is one of the most helpful measures in the treatment of infertility in both men and women. And not infrequently it may be needed by both partners in an infertile marriage.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.