Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature. – Nathaniel Philbrick
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn’t a religion major really. – Maggie Gyllenhaal
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. – David Augsburger
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. – Fredrik Bajer
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. – Nick Johnson
Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things. – Mary MacLane
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures. – Michael Novak
Literature – novels, plays, and poems – can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school. – Jane Smiley
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. – Josef Skvorecky
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them. – Jacques Audiard
I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn’t considered an option. You couldn’t get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature. – James Callis
Shouldn’t the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature? – Lydia Millet
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide. – Len G. Murray
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. – Lytton Strachey
Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand – not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn’t advanced enough. – Leonard Susskind
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It’s an important part of epic literature. – Kevin J. Anderson
I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn’t worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub. – Jen Lancaster