Quotes of: Great-literature Keyword

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

Robert Gould Shaw

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

Laura Marling

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Bill Walton

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

David Amram

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Toni Morrison

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

Russian Winter

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

The Man-Made World

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

On Literature

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

Pemberley by the Sea

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

Robert Duvall

The real world is cruel, but in the comfort of literature, it can bring some light.

Jeremy Limn

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

Thomas Keneally

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Lydia Lunch

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Lytton Strachey

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Clifford Geertz

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

Robert Darnton