Best Don Frye Quotes & Sayings

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds. — Northrop Frye

Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not. — Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack. — Don Frye

In this perspective what I like or don't like disappears, because there's nothing left of me as a separate person: as a reader of literature I exist only as a representative of humanity as a whole. We — Northrop Frye

Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands. — Dwight Frye

I used to be encouraged when, after a Sunday's message, people would say, "John, that was a good message. You showed me things from that verse that I never would have seen. I don't know how you do it. Thanks so much." Howard Hendricks called this postservice time "the glorification of the worm. — John W. Frye

The eyes healed in a matter of a few days, as eyes heal quickly, mine just heal faster than anybody else. I was back in the strip club hours later rehabbing my eyes. — Don Frye

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean. — Northrop Frye

Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car. — Don Frye

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that. — Northrop Frye

I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night! — Soleil Moon Frye

This is an example of why the humanists have always insisted that you don't learn to think wholly from one language: you learn to think better from linguistic conflict, from bouncing one language off another. — Northrop Frye

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. [p.92] — Northrop Frye

Losing is like my ex-wife ... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it. — Don Frye