Quotes of: Great-literature Keyword

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Henry James

Some think it the historian's business to penetrate beyond this apparent confusion and heterogeneity, and to grasp in a single intuition the 'spirit' or 'meaning' of his period. With some hesitation, and with much respect for the great men who have t...

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

A great speech is literature.

Peggy Noonan

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

Lev Grossman

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

Ruth Ozeki

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Hugh Blair

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Poseidon's Wake

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

Avi Arad

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

James Earl Jones

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

John Adams

Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.

Vladimir Nabokov

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Charles J. Shields

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

Richard Flanagan

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Let the Great World Spin

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Julie Walters

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

Basmah bint Saud

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Douglas Sirk

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Gilbert Murray

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

B.F. Skinner