Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does because they're different forms and yet related. I probably know as much about music history as I do about the history of cinema.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.