Northrop Frye Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
-
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
-
On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
-
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
-
Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
-
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
-
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
-
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
-
I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
-
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
-
I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
-
People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
-
I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
-
I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
-
Is now the time to legalize prostitution?
-
There's so many accusations that are so ridiculous about Pete Wentz that are taken as the gospel-people just assume that he posted pictures of his penis on the internet. That is the stupidest fucking thing thing I've ever heard. Why on earth would you ever do that?
-
Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not - so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?’
-
No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.
-
It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.
-
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
-
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
-
Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
-
When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.
-
Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
