Allusion Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and… — William James
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most… — Oliver Goldsmith
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke… — Miriam Schapiro
The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description… — Harryette Mullen
An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be… — Abraham Lincoln
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not… — Jean Baudrillard
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and that… — Merrill C. Tenney
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… — Amy Waldman
The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic… — Jessica Helfand
I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a… — Matthew Sweet
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having… — Marvin Olasky
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety… — Samuel Johnson
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… — Tobias Smollett
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long… — Oliver Goldsmith
Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally… — Umberto Eco
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other… — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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