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
Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below. — Max Pam Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God's principles. Never forget faith… — Patience Johnson 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
“Everyone in this tale has a rock-solid hamartia: hers, that she is so sick; yours, that you are so well. Were she… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I repeat, it's not sonnets, it's Naskar Sonnets, don't try to fit them into your puny, whitewashed, backward eurocentric customs and conventions… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam,… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image