The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in…

“A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.”

— Kevin Focke

“The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.” (VII)”

— Aristotle

“Our civilization is characterised by the word 'progress'. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it constructs. It…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence…

— Adam J. Banks

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The…

— Roland Barthes

“Another Mexican American in another class, approaches Victor after class, carrying his copy of Fahrenheit 451, required reading for the course. The student doesn't…

— Victor Villanueva

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom…

— Richard Whately

Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole,…

— Richard Whately

No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but…

— Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the…

— Richard Whately

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that…

— Paul Laseau

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,…

— Alan Greenspan

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

— Samuel Johnson

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez