Northrop Frye Quotes

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Play
  • Language
  • Silent

• People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • People
  • Different
  • Light

• I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Journey
  • Limits
  • Reggae

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tried
  • Liking
  • I Tried

• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Character
  • Army
  • United States

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Up
  • Why
  • True

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Success

• I think being busy is a healthy thing.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Busy

• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Small

• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Fall

• I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Attention
  • Problem

• And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

  

  Dan Rather
  • School
  • Remember
  • Loved

• Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Thanks

• I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?

  

  Chad Hugo N.E.R.D.
  • Feel
  • Sure
  • Interaction

• Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Done
  • Band

• When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Like
  • First

• Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Cancer
  • Destroy
  • Guilt

• Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Different
  • Art
  • Reality

• Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Art
  • Audience
  • Generations