F R Leavis Quotes

#1. No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.

Pat Metheny

#2. The world lost something when you died, Tod, and I know that wasn't easy for your family. But the world's loss was Kaylee's gain. I hope the two of you have the forever her mother and I never got."
"I will do my damnedest to make sure of that."
"I know you will.

Rachel Vincent

#3. I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

James A. Michener

#4. We don't marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our eyes and we see them as they really are, perhaps never to glimpse it again.
How lovely she is, how unearthly lovely.

Cornell Woolrich

#5. Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

F.R. Leavis

#6. Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen,

Aldous Huxley

#7. A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in English Poetry)

F.R. Leavis

#8. The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

James Wolfensohn

#9. The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.

F.R. Leavis

#10. The Lord is great.
The Lord is gracious.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

Hutch Harris

#12. A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

F.R. Leavis

#13. The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

Claire Forlani

#14. Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

Norman Finkelstein

#15. He growled, equally exhilarated and annoyed by
the way she insisted on pushing him back. I'm going to put you on your knees, Ruby. You're going to hate how much you love it.

Tessa Bailey

#16. I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

Tom Stoppard

#17. Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

F.R. Leavis

#18. You seem to have an aversion to the mall."
His answer to that was, "Do I have a dick?"
I felt my lips curl up and I replied , "Yes, baby. You have a dick."
"Then, yeah. I got an aversion to the mall.

Kristen Ashley

#19. The force of originality "that made Donne so potent an influence in the seventeenth century makes him now at once for us, without his being the less felt as of his period, contemporary - obviously a living poet in the most important sense." In "The Good-Morrow" Leavis said that

John Donne

#20. When you do a cheesy leopard print, it can turn out so wrong.

Kim Kardashian

#21. If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

Louise Hay

#22. In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.

F.R. Leavis