Literature Quotes · Page 58

“If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”

— K. Ritz

The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.

— Rajendra K. Pachauri

“Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.”

— Chloe Thurlow

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

— Camilo Jose Cela

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.”

— B.S. Murthy

“Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books.”

— K. Lamb

“My own blood always tasted disappointing. I wondered if it tasted that way to God too.”

— Eli Wilde

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything…

— Georgia King

“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through…

— Lenora Champagne

I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums -…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may…

— Walter Scott

You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's…

— Theodore Austin-Sparks

When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point…

— Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

— Julian Barnes

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the…

— Leland Ryken

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when…

— Roberto Bolano

Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty…

— Washington Irving

The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I…

— John Hurt

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of…

— Tibor Fischer

I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But…

— Blake Mills

“I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs…

— Nick Hornby

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

— Samuel Johnson

“All that have not studied literature are doomed to repeat it. -C. Martin Stepp”

— C. Martin Stepp

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

— Jorge Luis Borges

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

— Cyril Connolly

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

— John Hurt

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

— Joni Mitchell

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

— Bertrand Russell

Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

— Alastair Reynolds

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature.

— Jacqueline Susann

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

— Mason Cooley

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

— Alistair Cooke