Northrop Frye Quotes

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• But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Lies

• The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Home
  • Path
  • Hiking

• Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • She

• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Man

• I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Touching
  • Originally

• I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

  

  Os Guinness
  • America
  • City
  • Christian

• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Music
  • Different
  • Reality

• The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Secret
  • Being
  • Vanity

• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Feel
  • Belong

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Me

• I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Kids
  • Society

• Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Poetry
  • English
  • Modern

• When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Up

• It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • Insomnia

• My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Feeling
  • Opinion
  • Intellect

• We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Advertising
  • Spend
  • Dollar

• I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Business
  • Learn
  • Television

• ...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.

  

  Carl Gustav Hempel
  • Body
  • Property
  • Mathematical

• Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Advertising
  • Threat
  • Flattery