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"It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy." »Steve Jobs
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"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy." »Steve Jobs
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"If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world." »Samuel Johnson
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"Excessive literary production is a social offense." »George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
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"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth." »Mark Twain
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"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." »Joseph Conrad
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." »Anais Nin
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"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom
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"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers." »Leo C. Rosten
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"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political." »Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
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"Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish." »Isaac D?Israeli
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