Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but one of the functions of that is basically the sort of Consumer Reports function of letting readers know whether this is something they want to read.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.