Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

Ira Glass

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Lucy: You take everyone's suffering and turn it into gold, LITERARY GOLD!

Deconstructing Harry

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

W. H. Auden

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

Emma Donoghue

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

George Lucas

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

Alain de Botton

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

Atul Gawande

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

Blake Bailey

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Milan Kundera

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun.

Bless Me, Ultima

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.

Scarlet

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

Taylor Dane

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.

Jacque Fresco

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

James Woods

One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.

Mongolian

I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.

Mary Frann

When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

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