"Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It……" — Amy Waldman
"Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers."
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Amy Waldman
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33 Quotes by Amy Waldman
Amy Waldman has 33 quotes on this site.
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Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
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Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
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In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
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Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn…
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The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
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In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like…
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Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
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In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
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My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become…
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My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and…
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More Allusion Quotes
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When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the…
— William James
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
— Clifton Fadiman
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional…
— Unknown Author
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The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety…
— Harryette Mullen
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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands…
— Abraham Lincoln
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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
— Umberto Eco
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant…
— Jack Vance
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One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature…
— Merrill C. Tenney
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The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But…
— Jessica Helfand
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