About The Nature Of Literature Quotes

#1. I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline ... What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake ... We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.

Barack Obama

#2. Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man's pen and legacy is without question.

Jay Electronica

#3. Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book was doing something to me.

Sara Levine

#4. Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.

Ringo Starr

#6. Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?

Douglas Adams

#7. The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.

Kellie Elmore

#8. It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

#9. You might like that one. But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly ( ... )

Matthew Quick

#10. If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf.

Jo Walton

#11. I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

Martin Scorsese

#12. If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.

Tom Hodgkinson

#13. For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

Lord Robertson

#14. Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

Alex Steffen

#15. Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

William Morris Hunt

#16. No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

Mike Carey

#17. I have been studying now for about 2 years, on a rather intensive basis, the UFO problem. I have interviewed several hundred witnesses in selected cases, and I am astonished at what I have found.

James MacDonald

#18. Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

Neil LaBute

#19. People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves.

Harold Bloom