#liter

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#illiterate #lot #quite #read

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#beauty #believe #father #felt #gave

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#based #being #day #doing #dreamed

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. ↗

— Ravi Shankar

#great #great music #like #literature #month

But it's not just a game of finding literary references. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#game #just #literary #references

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#been #complexity #definition #down #film

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#criticism #golden #literature #look #lovers

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#air #beauty #been #between #blocks

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#geographic #i #illiteracy #kids #lifetime