George Steiner is a famous Critic from USA, he/she is 95 years old and still alive, born April 23, 1929.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 11 quotes who is written / told by George.
11 Famous quotes by George Steiner
"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent"
"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform"
"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning"
"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war"
"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence"
"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life"
"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness"
"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion"
"The age of the book is almost gone"
"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital"
"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light"
