#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