Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity.

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It's almost like there's too much choice.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.

We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

We spend so much time, these days, on forms of literature that don't rise to be literature, and I'm speaking about Twitter posts and quick and hot takes on different websites. We sort of zoom from thing to thing like a hummingbird.

We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.