Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
“So,' I said, partly to Magda, partly to myself, 'Rema left Argentina with this An-a-to-le person.' I adopted the four-syllable pronunciation with… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if… — Daniel Coit Gilman Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Airplane Dream #13' told the story, more or less, of a dream Rosa had had about the end of the world. There… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image