Sinclair Lewis (Harry Sinclair Lewis) Quotes

People read fiction for emotion-not information.

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• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Dream
  • Dad
  • Mom

• It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Live
  • Man
  • Food

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • You
  • Looks

• I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Song
  • Language
  • German

• I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • God
  • Job
  • Movie

• I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Different
  • Want
  • Play

• I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Time
  • Man
  • Intelligence

• If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Week
  • Gym
  • Just

• CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I are clear: CNN will remain completely independent from an editorial perspective.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • American
  • Free
  • Independent

• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Value
  • Sense

• I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live?

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • Men
  • America
  • Revolution

• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • Insomnia

• The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

  

  E. Lockhart

• The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

  

  Elinor Smith
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Puppet

• I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Trouble

• Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Problem
  • Spiritual

• The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple of years later. So, we start with the stories of Juan Garrido and Esteban to show that African-American people have been here a century longer than anyone thought, and that the diversity we see in the African-American community today has existed since the beginning.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Today
  • Community

• People read fiction for emotion-not information.

  

  Sinclair Lewis
  • Information
  • Emotion
  • Fiction