Motifs In Literature Quotes

#1. The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

Lester Bangs

#2. Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!

Caroline Corr

#3. He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. Love is like life but longer.

Simon Van Booy

#5. We should get coffee this week. If you want, that is."
"Coffee would be great," I say. Dick would be better, though.

Karina Halle

#6. Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.

Sarah Dessen

#7. I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Lotte Lehmann

#8. When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Richard Mottram

#9. There's too much to learn in a lifetime.

Cinda Williams Chima

#10. My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Akon

#11. Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

James A. Baldwin

#12. My wits supply, sir, what my sword cannot always command.

Emmuska Orczy

#13. We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Stanley Hauerwas

#14. In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.

Northrop Frye