Northrop Frye Quotes

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Northrop Frye

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• Worship
• Intellectual
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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Flying
  • Saying

• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• I like game shows.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Game
  • Like
  • Shows

• I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Help
  • Parents
  • First

• Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Characters
  • Get
  • Noticed

• Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Live
  • Old

• I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Health
  • Environmental

• I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • School
  • Things
  • Clothes

• I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Simple
  • Trust
  • Try

• It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Men
  • High
  • Support

• When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Good
  • Justice

• The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • True

• There was a certain creative excitement, expressed in glandular constrictions which he knew well.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• They are smoking crack.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Smoking

• The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

  

  Leo Buscaglia

• It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • President

• Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty or mean interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.

  

  African Spir
  • Search
  • Eternity
  • Worship

• When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't involve money in a few chores, you lose the teachable moments in the work, spend, save, and give principles.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Work
  • Children
  • Family

• I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • People
  • Value
  • Gold

• Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Culture
  • Understanding
  • Worship