Northrop Frye Quotes

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

Northrop Frye

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• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Small
  • Team
  • Basketball

• I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Animal
  • Right
  • Dumb

• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Small
  • Purpose
  • Door

• I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

  

  OMI
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Old

• I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Never
  • Research

• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Done
  • Think

• When memories fade, can one ever really return home?

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Home
  • Memories
  • Return

• Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Fight

• I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • Voice
  • Saying

• Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movie

• When I get out of work early, or if I have some time before I go into the studio, I go to Disneyland for a few hours with my siblings. We just have fun, go on all the rides together, and eat all of the good food.

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Think with your whole body.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Think
  • Body
  • inspirational

• The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Everyday

• Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Fashion
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

  

  James Avery
  • Life
  • Career
  • Success

• Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Think
  • Stress

• Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Science

• One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Life
  • Society
  • Value

• Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Language
  • Silence

• I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Society
  • Study
  • Language