The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic…

“The literati in their cellars Perform semantic tarantellas. I wish I did it half as well as them.”

— Al Stewart

All the literati keep An imaginary friend.

— W. H. Auden

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

— Joseph Brodsky

“There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really…

— Kelly Link

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter…

— Tom Stoppard

I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards…

— Jonathan Swift

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

— George Eliot

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

— Bret Harte

In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a…

— Rachel Johnson

I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our…

— Brian Reade

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

— Joseph Addison

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

— Camille Paglia

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws