Lionel Trilling Quotes

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Lionel Trilling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 4, 1905 - November 5, 1975

Topics

CultureSocietySelfLiteratureHigh

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

Jesse Ventura

NatureTruthUncomfortableComfort

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

John James Audubon

ChildrenManEnvironmentalWorldWho

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

Matt Taibbi

ResponsibilityJoyThoughtYouShame

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

Steven Pinker

PeaceWarPeopleBelieveSome People

I always have apples and fruit in the house. It's easier to eat something healthy if it's within reach. I also have yogurt, cheese and crackers, and raw almonds.

Martina McBride

FruitReachHouseCheeseHealthy

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

Mike Lee

WarFlyThinkSoilOverAct

Convince the investor that you guys are moving fast and that this isn't some long slog... you're thinking about it like a startup where you can move fast and make mistakes.

Michael Seibel

MistakesMovingThinkingLongYou

I just do what makes me happy.

Logic

HappyMeJustMakes

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Joshua Reynolds

ArtValueLaborPleasureMental

We want to be a consolidator, not a seller, and we want to continue to explore the kind of targeted entertainment, targeted audiences, that I think are happening and emerging in every country in the world.

Jon Feltheimer

WorldThinkCountryWantKind

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

Bode Miller

TimeChallengeMistakesThinkGoing

China's a big tea culture.

Alice Eve

CultureTeaChinaBig

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