Northrop Frye Quotes

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

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• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Facts
  • Away
  • Ignoring

• Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Act
  • Prove
  • Monarchy

• Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Things
  • Favorite
  • Wheel

• Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

  

  Randy West
  • Time
  • Live
  • Reading

• There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Listening
  • Period
  • Beauty

• Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Effort

• Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Want
  • Find
  • Young

• Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • More
  • Intelligence

• Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Beauty

• French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin

  

  T. S. Eliot

• I can feel your heartbeat, Where I lay my head ‘Cause you’ve got me Yeah you’ve got me

  

  Zooey Deschanel

• Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • World
  • Together
  • Chaos

• The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • People

• I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Great
  • Together
  • Player

• My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

  

  Jimmy Dean
  • Done
  • Song
  • Eyes

• It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.

  

  Ben Robertson
  • Freedom
  • Goal
  • Journey

• There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.

  

  Gary Giddins
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Wonderful

• I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

  

  John Prine
  • Read

• Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Literature
  • Difficult
  • Impossible