"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview,… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their… — William James Copy Share Image
Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature. — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It just literally never an option!” — Lillian R. Melendez Copy Share Image
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image