Literature Quotes - Page 157

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus.

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's agreed that he was always a great writer.

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts Are ills because we hoard them.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.

You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.