Literature Quotes - Page 13

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times.

Please all, and you will please none.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

There is no such thing as children’s literature.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Remember, you are only committed to what you confess.