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.

Stewart Udall

We stand today poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space and of an overall environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight. This, in brief, is the quiet conservation crisis.

Brian K. Vaughan

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

Doug Burgum

Helping customers achieve their full potential and reach their business goals is what we care about most. This year's Pinnacle Award winners are inspiring examples of what can be achieved when creativity and commitment to excellence are combined with Microsoft Dynamics applications.

Terry Turner

We are extremely pleased to have the chairman of one of Nashville's oldest public companies joining our board. Hal's knowledge of this community, in addition to his keen business acumen, will serve Pinnacle and our shareholders well.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Growing up in this business and truly wanting to be a part of the world of film, I'm a truly privileged person standing here today. But I must say, the pinnacle, the pinnacle of all that has been to work alongside one of the greatest contributors to the world of cinema of our time, and that is the great Martin Scorsese.

Jose Rebimbas

Sure, in any profession you always want to reach the pinnacle of that profession.

Steve Ruggiero

Let me put it this way: I don't think Pinnacle will take the market to the point where it can't grow anymore.

Bruce Lahn

I think a lot of people might consider humans to be at the pinnacle of evolutionary lineage -- that we have achieved an advanced state as a species, and we have basically become the end-game. But what we found indicates that the species -- particularly when it comes to the brain, which is perhaps our most defining feature -- is still evolving.

Warren Moon

I think all the guys that have played in the game before me as African- Americans have to share in this a little bit. We've made tremendous strides over the years and I really don't want to make this a racial thing because it shouldn't be. But it is significant because it is the first and I think whenever there is a first it is significant. When Doug Williams was the first African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, I think that helped a lot of things as far as young black quarterbacks getting more opportunities. I think this will be significant also. It shows we have arrived at the pinnacle of our sport.

Val McDermid

One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

George Romero

If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.

Andy Enright

I woke up for about a minute, and I remember seeing Austen lying on the ground. I was so mad I couldn't help him. I felt paralyzed. I tried to tell him I loved him, but I couldn't talk.

Joe Wright

It doesn't really work. The most important thing I did was that I wanted to cast all the actors at the right ages. I wanted to cast them at the ages that Austen wrote them. It seemed to me that these are young people experiencing these emotions for the first time.

Susanna Clarke

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

Joe Wright

Jane Austen has phenomenal craft, ... I tried to stay faithful to the narrative, the tone and atmosphere of the book, to find a cinematic equivalent of 'Pride and Prejudice.'

Chris Bohjalian

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

Naomie Harris

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

A. N. Wilson

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.