"Books are in no hurry. An act of……" — George Steiner

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no… - George Steiner

"Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely."

— George Steiner

Act Quotes Book Quotes Books Quotes Creation Quotes Hurry Quotes Infinitely Quotes Inspirational Quotes Privilege Quotes Privileges Quotes Reads Quotes Reads Us Quotes Us Quotes Us Infinitely Quotes

76 Quotes by George Steiner

George Steiner has 76 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this…
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she…
The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can…
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
The age of the book is almost gone.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the…

See all 76 quotes by George Steiner »

More Act Quotes

This quote is filed under Act Quotes, one of 8,447 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

See all 8,447 Act Quotes »