Northrop Frye Quotes

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Underdog

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Heart
  • Dreams
  • Texas

• You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Business
  • Best

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Like
  • Short
  • Twitter

• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • City
  • Morning

• Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and still I never thought it could happen to me. I didn't even regularly check my breasts.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Women
  • Family
  • Cancer

• I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Work
  • Relationship

• In general, I don't really think too much about pacing, myself. You kind of look at each script and what each script demands.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa

• It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.

  

  Kevin Williamson
  • Great
  • Girl
  • Stop

• I'm such a foodie.

  

  Jessie James Decker

• If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Money

• I want to keep playing good golf.

  

  Bubba Watson
  • Good
  • Golf

• I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

  

  April Bloomfield
  • Animal
  • Cooking

• I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Different

• I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

  

  John Mahoney
  • Job
  • Team
  • Lost

• Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.

  

  David Deida
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Giving

• If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

  

  Future
  • World
  • Cool

• What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • God
  • Choice

• In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Happens