Northrop Frye Quotes

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

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• I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Focus

• I'm not much of a jokester.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Much

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Hard Work

• Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Woman

• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Life
  • Important
  • Hope

• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

  

  Maimonides
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Ignorant

• We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Grow
  • Cost

• When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Think
  • Door
  • Garden

• The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Government
  • Discipline
  • Organization

• Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Memories

• I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Tea
  • Politician
  • Cup

• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Poetry

• Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Sad
  • Moment
  • Lion

• All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • God

• What expressions we used – in part taken over and in part newly invented! - above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us ‘perpendicularly from above,’ the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• 'You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.' quoted in (February 2010)5

  

  Bill Gates
  • Real
  • Words
  • Reading

• Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People

• I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reading

• If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

  

  Angelina Grimke
  • Law

• I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

  

  Chloe Grace Moretz
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Bad
  • Friend
  • Hand

• There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • People
  • Fun

• Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Mind
  • Metaphor
  • Integration