I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Paid family leave, for instance, has strong backing in scientific literature as an effective means of enabling families who want kids to… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them… — Barbara Cooney Copy Share Image
“In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't… — Jonathan W. Galassi 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
Accused of spreading pornography on the communications revolution, notat all fair, here are the best of literature available that you do not… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments. — Glenway Wescott 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
“You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay… — K Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word, — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" -… — Sherry Marie Gallagher Copy Share Image
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Scholarship cannot do without literature… It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
