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

• Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Matter
  • Lovers
  • Kissing

• Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Children

• One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Giving
  • Confidence
  • Speech

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

  

  Richard Serra
  • Thing
  • Become
  • Master

• 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