The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able… — William James Copy Share Image
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that… — James Payn Copy Share Image
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always… — Bronagh Gallagher Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind… — William James Copy Share Image
I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban,… — John Walker Lindh Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature,… — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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