Hygiene Quotes - Page 3

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Basically, it is your self-esteem that shapes the choice of your job, female, friends, and how you take care of yourself (health/hygiene/hobby's)!

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.