Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

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

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'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 shall perish by guile just as we slew.