Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Being is the great explainer.

Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly. "Where would Romeo and Juliet be?" "Alive.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to invent 'trap-words,' or words that would force the narrator to turn around and start his path anew.

But love's a malady without a cure.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

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

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.