Literature Quotes - Page 134

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Almost everything I've learned about journalism has been from other friends who are journalists, taking advantage of the money I hope they don't think they threw away at j-school. I studied comparative literature, but the professional vagaries of journalism I've learned through other people's trial and error, and my own.

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between!

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

While there's life, there's fear.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.