Northrop Frye Quotes

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

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• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Night

• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Knowledge
  • Stress
  • Sympathy

• Conformity is dangerous.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Dangerous
  • Conformity

• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Time
  • Family
  • Taken

• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Always

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Man
  • Fifty
  • Loveliness

• My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Cool

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Job
  • Nice

• In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Age
  • You

• I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Find

• One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Live
  • Day

• I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Money
  • Care
  • Meetings

• The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Important
  • Small
  • Wage

• A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Cool

• A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Humor
  • Numbers

• I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Wine
  • Yoga

• Frankly, I've often thought that conservatives might be partly responsible for Hillary's success. ... By demonizing her, we've elevated her importance and encouraged liberals to rally around her.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Success
  • Responsible
  • Importance

• There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Life
  • Great
  • Water

• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Proud
  • Angry
  • Sky

• Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Fall
  • Stories

• Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Language
  • Speech
  • Capable