Northrop Frye Quotes

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

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• Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
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• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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• An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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  • English

• I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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• Continue to study and learn new skills.

  

  Edie McClurg
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  • Learn
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• An artisan busies himself with his work for three hours each day and spends nine hours in study.

  

  Maimonides
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• Logic is usually understood nowadays as a study of certain formal systems, though in former times there were philosophers who held that the subject matter of logic was the formal rules of human thought.

  

  Logic
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• The main contribution one can make as a student to one's country in peace or wartime is to study hard and effectively.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Study

• I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of 'humility.' This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Purpose

• Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
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• The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Up
  • Study

• I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.

  

  Kate Leth
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friends

• I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Art
  • War

• Say not: “When I have free time I shall study”, for you may perhaps never have any free time.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Study
  • Free Time

• You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • People
  • Money
  • America

• Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

  

  Christopher McDougall
  • Animal
  • Endurance

• Free men have arms; slaves do not.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Men
  • Slave
  • Arms

• The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

  

  Paul Di Filippo
  • Internet
  • Writer
  • Abilities

• The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

  

  Northrop Frye
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