Short Quotes - Author M. H. Abrams Showing 1 - 12 of 12 Add Quote The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. M. H. Abrams Survival Upvote0 It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. M. H. Abrams Age Upvote0 If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. M. H. Abrams Upvote0 Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. M. H. Abrams Work Upvote0 The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. M. H. Abrams Theories Upvote0 Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. M. H. Abrams Help Upvote0 If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. M. H. Abrams Body Upvote0 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 superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. M. H. Abrams Ability Upvote0 We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. M. H. Abrams Humanity Upvote0 John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. M. H. Abrams Fun Upvote0 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. M. H. Abrams People Upvote0 When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. M. H. Abrams History Upvote0