Sinclair Lewis Quotes

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Sinclair Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951

Topics

ColdAmericanLiteratureDeadPure

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

Jennifer Coolidge

GoodPaintingSomeoneYouBadKnow

People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.

Max Riemelt

PeopleUnderstandOrderThingsLike

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

Roger Andrew Taylor

BackEarlyClassicUpAgainstGoing

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

TeaAmericanPartyIdealLikeAbout

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

Maryanne Trump Barry

FamilyCollegeGoFirstFirst One

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

Mike Simpson

HealthActionCareNowEveryone

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

Mike McCready

TomorrowMindKindBandAlwaysOver

I really don't know what happened in reference to 'The Butler.' Mr. Daniels and I had a conversation. I had the script, the email that goes along with it in reference to the character, read the script, loved it. Then I never heard from Mr. Daniels again, and the next I saw was that Oprah Winfrey is now playing the part.

Mo'Nique

CharacterLovedConversationKnow

A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.

Donald E. Graham

EyesStoryEndPoliticalWillOver

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

Chris Martin

MusicControlWorldFeelOverOut

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

Colin Trevorrow

HomeMeFeelSan FranciscoNorthwest

Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.

Brian Azzarello

WalkThinkRealityFindingYouDown

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