search

Quotes about Unclasified, M. H. Abrams

Authors, Quotes about unclasified


up
down
190 authors

About author

   close

Quotes about Unclasified, M. H. Abrams

: (16 quotes)

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 161 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a...

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 156 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 151 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 143 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 173 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 176 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Rap is far from an abstract, dematerialized mode of utterance. I hate a lot of rap because it's bad stuff, but it does emphasize the articulatory aspect of the words.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 170 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Natural Supernaturalism is quite well known and even used as a textbook, but it never seems to have attracted the acclaim of its predecessor.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 165 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 178 | Rank: 0 | Fav

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 144 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 179 | Rank: 0 | Fav

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 148 | Rank: 0 | Fav

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I've always been surprised at the degree of success of The Mirror and the Lamp and duration of esteem for it. I had no reason to expect in 1953 that it would appeal to more than a specialized group...

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 145 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Author: M. H. Abrams (1912) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 173 | Rank: 0 | Fav
Copyright © 2007-2012 RightWords, All rights reserved
Web Design by YourCHOICE,   Sunday 12 Feb 2012
Searching tags: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z All