Northrop Frye Quotes

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

Northrop Frye

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Long
  • History
  • Age

• I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • World
  • Money

• I usually know where I want to end up when I begin, but I have no idea how I'm going to get there... I don't write with an outline, and surprises happen on the way, and sometimes it changes.

  

  Kevin Henkes
  • Up

• Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

  

  Kimberly Caldwell
  • School
  • Drawing

• It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Massage
  • Horrifying

• The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Art
  • War

• One of the first people I interviewed was Alvy Ray Smith, a charismatic Texan with a Ph.D. in computer science and a sparkling resume that included teaching stints at New York University and UC Berkeley and a gig at Xerox PARC, the distinguished R&D lab in Palo Alto. I had conflicting feelings when I met Alvy because, frankly, he seemed more qualified to lead the lab than I was. I can still remember the uneasiness in my gut, that instinctual twinge spurred by a potential threat: This, I thought, could be the guy who takes my job one day. I hired him anyway.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Feelings

• If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Best

• I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.

  

  George Duke
  • Like
  • Record
  • Voyage

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

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Literature
  • Difficult
  • Impossible