Comparing Literature Quotes & Sayings

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover

What is experienced from within cannot be categorized in concepts that have been developed for the external world of the senses. — Wilhelm Dilthey

And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other. — Richard Mitchell

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry
all literature in fact
to the droppings of the goats among the rocks
mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on. — D.H. Lawrence

This isn't a drill, sir!"
"What d'you mean this isn't a drill?" It couldn't be! It wasn't possible. Things like that only happen in blockbuster sci-fi movies, not in real life!
"It's not a drill, sir! This is the real thing! You'd better get up here right away sir! Sir? Sir!"
But Commander Ortez was already on his way -- and he was running.
When he eventually made his theatrical entrance on the bridge, nothing had happened yet. He wheezed.
"Well?" He appealed, ready for anything. After that, this had better not be a drill. Or else. — Christina Engela

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible. — Barry Webster

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them. — Celine Dion