Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thom Gunn

With my creative writing students, I've taught literature more than I've taught writing courses'I just hope to make them better.

Alan Bennett

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

Akira Kurosawa

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Chris Abani

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Chinua Achebe

My weapon is literature

Chinua Achebe

You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.

Chinua Achebe

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

Cheryl Strayed

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.

Cheryl Strayed

A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10 favorite books. I have to go out of my way to remember to pick up a book like that, but when I do I'm blown away by how very relevant it still is.

Paul Karas

We're sort of quiet out here, doing our thing. But we are ... going to be in a position to claim the title of third commercial airport for Chicago.

Anne Finch

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

Javy Lopez

When we'd lose a game we acted like nothing happened, not the end of the world. We'd leave quietly and come back like nothing happened the day before.

Tyrus Thomas

We're not an uptight bunch. We just like to have fun. A lot of coaches like the team to be quiet and focused before a game. The way we focus is to clown around. We think about the task at hand. But we don't worry. We like to have fun, study and practice hard.

Mahmoud Abbas

We're back to square one. Now we need time to regain calm. Our people need a quiet life and to make a living.

Chris Copeland

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

Chris Bohjalian

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

Cheryl Strayed

Acceptance is a small quiet room.

Cherie Lunghi

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.