Top Literature Quotes

#1. So long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to dose her with mercury and pills and clean her out from top to bottom, she has been so ultra-screwed by filthy pricks!

Gustave Flaubert

#2. With the windows in his top of the range Audi firmly in place we slowly baked ourselves and chatted over why my hatred of golf was wrong, what made a good antihero and why Paul McCartney should just fuck off.

David Louden

#3. If I'd known how many brownie points this daddy stuff could win me, I'd have talked you into kids years ago. Would have saved me a lot of trouble." "It would have." "Problem is, they're going to grow up." He paused. "We may need to have more." "We may.

Kelley Armstrong

#4. A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. I get now that your boy parts like my girl parts....

Julie Ann Walker

#7. Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

James Russell Lowell

#8. Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

Mitchell Baker

#9. You are a living magnet with magnetic power emitting from your every thought.

Debasish Mridha

#10. There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

JJ Feild

#11. I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

Linda Ronstadt

#12. Potemkin only deceived his empress;
how much more despicable to deceive oneself.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#13. There scotsmen must have arses like leather,for while he ate I could see naught beneath his kilts but a pair of rather large balls , the secretary told him . - philippa

Bertrice Small

#14. You can't imagine an actor ever becoming president of the United States, for example, which was true. We couldn't.

Gary D. Schmidt

#15. I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.

Jen Lancaster

#16. Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.

Max Pam

#17. 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