Literature Of Europe Quotes

#1. The phallic dignity, of a powerhouse of a warrior prince, is how the great imaginative literature of Europe begins,

Philip Roth

#2. The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The

Edward Gibbon

#3. Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

Paulette Goddard

#4. I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.

Victor Cruz

#5. Fighting back is what I've discovered I do best.

Meg Rosoff

#6. I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

Roman Payne

#7. There's nothing wrong with being proud of who you are. It's a wonderful thing.

Matthew Moy

#8. Dreams, the veins of the universe.

Gwen Calvo

#9. With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

Michael Franti

#10. The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.

Kenzaburo Oe

#11. Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

Dario Fo

#12. The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

John Bruton

#13. Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

Darryl Pinckney

#14. Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#15. And do you not think less of me for making my fortune in
such a way?" After all, her own sister did.
He gave her an odd look. "There is no shame in being the
mistress of a king. It's a position of great power and influence. I think less of Louis for letting you go.

Jenna Maclaine

#16. It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

Lafcadio Hearn

#17. There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

Joe Wright

#18. I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.

Anne Fortier

#19. A study in the American Journal of Public Health estimated that every $1 increase in the price of gasoline is associated with an additional 1,500 motorcycle deaths annually.10

Charles Wheelan

#20. I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.

Laurence Gartel

#21. High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.

Ruben Hinojosa

#22. Peter Kemp observed that 'Literature owes an enormous debt to Henry James's bowels.' As the correspondence revealed, the young Henry suffered from chronic constipation. To alleviate it his parents dispatched him on a grand tour of Europe (doubtless hoping the foreign food would loosen his entrails).

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