Allusions Quotes

12 quotes by 11 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
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
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
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
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or… — Philip Larkin

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