Ralph Waldo Emerson Literature, Poem
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. Jean-Paul Sartre
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. P.G. Wodehouse
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. Gertrude Stein
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature Garth Risk Hallberg
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other Anton Chekhov
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other
On graduating from the school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
On graduating from the school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.
Every man's memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Life should imitate romance literature far more often. Charlaine Harris
Life should imitate romance literature far more often.
In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago. Heinrich Hertz
In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago.
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. Frederick Sanger
I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
