#liter

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#child #felt #grief #i #kind

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance. ↗

— Mo Yan

#am #aware #become #brutal #does

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#literature #moral #politics #serve

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#broke #even #find #get #getting

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#indicates #literature #nation

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#because #corps #engineer #engineering #graduate

We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later. ↗

— Lesley Gore

#april #days #driving #first #first time

Every single day I have missed you. I grieve for the moments we have had together and I long for the moments we will never have. ↗

— Kristin Maddock

#literary #death

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#both #communication #communication skills #did #education