Literature Quotes - Page 106

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Mystery is not profoundness.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.