#liter

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me. ↗

— June Allyson

#literally #me #millions #music #role

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#around #artistic #going #happening #i

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#always #college #educated #go #i

No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes. ↗

— Avi Arad

#again #being #books #bothered #dealing

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#brain #count #easiest #fact #how

Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling. ↗

— John Badham

#else #feeling #get #interested #just

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage. ↗

— Todd Barry

#comedy #comic #could #decide #during

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#even #literature #must #only #proofs

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#irony #literary #qualities #two

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#big #causes #complicated #crime #know