Top 28 Don Frye Quotes
#1. You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.
Donna Mills
#2. A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
Northrop Frye
#3. I don't tour the TV studios. I don't gossip over lunch. I don't drink in Parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me.
Theresa May
#4. Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love.
John Wesley
#6. This is an example of why the humanists have always insisted that you don't learn to think wholly from one language: you learn to think better from linguistic conflict, from bouncing one language off another.
Northrop Frye
#8. In this perspective what I like or don't like disappears, because there's nothing left of me as a separate person: as a reader of literature I exist only as a representative of humanity as a whole. We
Northrop Frye
#9. Losing is like my ex-wife ... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.
Don Frye
#10. Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.
Morihei Ueshiba
#11. Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.
Dwight Frye
#12. I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!
Soleil Moon Frye
#13. I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92]
Northrop Frye
#14. In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
Alexander Smith
#15. Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.
Don Frye
#16. Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.
Paul Theroux
#17. He held me as if I were his most prized possession and I could feel every beat of his heart against me, as we embraced, lovingly. I felt safer and more loved than I had ever thought I could feel, and I never wanted it to end.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#18. I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.
Jane Seymour
#19. The eyes healed in a matter of a few days, as eyes heal quickly, mine just heal faster than anybody else. I was back in the strip club hours later rehabbing my eyes.
Don Frye
#20. During our lives ... we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.
Lance Armstrong
#21. I used to be encouraged when, after a Sunday's message, people would say, "John, that was a good message. You showed me things from that verse that I never would have seen. I don't know how you do it. Thanks so much." Howard Hendricks called this postservice time "the glorification of the worm.
John W. Frye
#23. Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.
Northrop Frye
#24. for you never deigned to believe that I could, without any specific designs, ever crave to bury my face in your plaid skirt, my darling!
Vladimir Nabokov
#25. My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.
Don Frye
#26. We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.
Chris Mooney
#27. Alex pushed open the door to Sewell Hall and rushed inside, breathing heavily and wishing she hadn't worn her corset stays quite so tight this morning. "Vanity be damned," she huffed to herself. "Loveliness will do me no good with Blackmoor if I drop dead from lack of air before he sees me.
Sarah MacLean
#28. Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not.
Don Frye
