Quotes of: English-literature Keyword

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

The Great Gilly Hopkins: Literature Guide

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

C.S. Lewis

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Jose Bergamin

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

Christopher Moore

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

Christie Hefner

If religion is true, one must believe. And if one chooses not to believe, one’s choice is marked under the category of a refusal, and is thus never really free: it has the duress of a recoil.” With literary belief, however, “one is always free ...

The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as ...

Lars Gustafsson

...fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love of words more than a love of women...

Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour

I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery...

Twisted

People are always saying these things about how there's no need to read literature anymore-that it won't help the world. Everyone should apparently learn to speak Mandarin, and learn how to write code for computers. More young people should go into S...

Meg Wolitzer

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

Tom Stoppard

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

Nina Conti

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

Jamie Campbell Bower

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

Harrison Birtwistle

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

Where would we be if anything at all could turn up in books?

The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

The Price of Creation

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Carlos Fuentes

A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.

Leland Ryken

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

Mo Yan