Studying Literature Quotes (page 2)

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• english
• study
• independent

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. Maggie Gyllenhaal

• english
• literature
• work

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. Jeffrey Eugenides

• literature
• spiritual
• night

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us. Dorothy Day

• study
• today
• heart

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. Alfred de Vigny

• life
• mistake
• literature

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. Eric Allin Cornell

• love
• passion
• literature

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. Lafcadio Hearn

• life
• challenge
• literature

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children. Polykarp Kusch

• universe
• literature
• thinking

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. Harold Bloom

• study
• people
• literature

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. Jim Rohn

• party
• law
• caring

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. Muhammad Iqbal