“We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down… — Pat Sajak Copy Share Image
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or… — Justin Kaplan Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?" "Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager.… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
