“It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any… — Kem Nunn 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
[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
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
Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references,… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up. 'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.… — Zach Woods 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
When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his… — Merrill C. Tenney Copy Share Image
If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -… — Steve Green Copy Share Image
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist… — Kazuo Ishiguro 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
The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches,… — Harryette Mullen Copy Share Image
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“An allusion is something we refuse to see, but we see what we want to see…” — Edna Stewart Copy Share Image
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“Polly Partial handed me a piece of paper printed on all sides with confusing times and locations. It looked like a herd… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is… — Jessica Helfand Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon 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 psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.” quote by Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f9a/orson-welles-1628_allusion_the-movies-make-the-sort-of-comment-only_811694.jpg)
![“A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).” quote by Tobias Smollett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e1/tobias-smollett-18143_acquire_a-mere-index-hunter-who-held-the-eel-of_2385125.jpg)
![“Polly Partial handed me a piece of paper printed on all sides with confusing times and locations. It looked like a herd of numbers having a square dance. I would rather have reread her book [To Kill a Mockingbird] than Stain'd-by-the-Sea's confusing train schedule, but just barely.” quote by Lemony Snicket](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9d2/lemony-snicket-663_allusion_polly-partial-handed-me-a-piece-of-paper_2840630.jpg)
