I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden? — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of public relations and rhetorical style but of actions. It's the actions and policies under George W.Bush administration… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
The colonial power tended to be France or Britain, and the Soviets were proclaimed as anti-imperialists. So, if you align yourself with… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump rhetoric]this is a common rhetorical line used by people who are against free trade that say, we're in favor of… — Avik Roy Copy Share Image
Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature. — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image