Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.
Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.
Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.
If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.