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#literature

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #literature




I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.


James McAvoy


#chance #character #children #favorite #get

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.


Andrea Mitchell


#arts #broadcasting #college #english #english literature

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#both #distressing #frequency #idols #literature

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.


V. S. Naipaul


#charming #friends #had #i #judgment

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.


Ben Okri


#dickens #home #i #literature #london

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.


John Henry Newman


#dictionary #does #great #literature #make

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.


Robert Nozick


#assumptions #been #describe #embodies #even

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.


Ellen Ochoa


#american #because #class #classes #created

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.


Michael Scott


#bookstore #christian #here #into #learn

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


#experience #literature #lived #ourselves #sole






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