Hygiene Quotes - Page 2

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene... All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.

So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.