#liter

I read Russian literature a lot. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#literature #lot #read #russian

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death. ↗

— Amanda Coplin

#death #literature-quotes #death

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#like #literature #money #sinews #those

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #metaphor #mind #other #scripture

What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#claustrophobic #feeling #get #give #her

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. ↗

— Brad Holland

#art #art form #consider #form #hobby

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#hair #i #i can #literate #maybe

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#i #literally #promiscuity #screw #them

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. ↗

— Horace

#eye #kept #least #literary #nine