Literature Quotes - Page 17

• We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

  Anne Rice

  Saint, Christ, Enough

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• I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...

  Anne Rice

  Hands, Mythology, Fascinated

  Penguin Random House Interview, www.randomhouse.com.

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• Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

  Anne Rice

  Possibility, Endless, Feathers

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• Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Bus Stops, Everyday

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.

  Terry Eagleton

  Odds, Syntax, Tone

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Philosophy, Study

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

  Terry Eagleton

  Home, Character, Plot

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

  Paul de Man

  Book, Men, Names

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• Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Dream, Book, Office

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• Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education

  Yvor Winters

  Book, Men, Defense

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• On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

  Ken Olsen

  Doe, Done, Computer

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• About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Subjects

  "Athenaeum Fragments" (1798) by Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Aphorism, Form

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (A in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798) #259)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Would Be, Criticize

  "Athenaeum Fragments" by Friedrich Schlegel, #56 (B&S), 1798.

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• God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Degrees, World, Individual

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• If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Mind, Looks, Want

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• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Always Trying, World, Endless

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• God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Mean, Deliverance, Gods Will

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• To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Doe, Sin, Knows

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• You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Firsts, Sin, Responsible

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• I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Age, Quests

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• I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

  Pratibha Patil

  Happiness, Art, Believe

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

  Polly Toynbee

  Art, Knowing, Iconography

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

  Jessica Savitch

  Jobs, Long, Losing

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

  Jessica Savitch

  People, Rooms, Worst

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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