Rhetorical Quotes

59 Rhetorical quotes by 56 unique authors

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your… — P.J. O'Rourke
I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also… — Josh Marshall
If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well… — Justin Cronin
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills… — Boris Johnson
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only… — George Saunders
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. — Hugh Sidey
Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of… — Michael Eric Dyson
Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat — Elizabeth Gilbert
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of… — William Faulkner
Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical… — Frank Beddor
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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, a bit of… — Orson Scott Card
Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its… — Kamila Shamsie
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose… — Walter Isaacson
There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never… — Alan Hollinghurst
So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. — Orson Scott Card
Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line… — James W. Loewen
What am I to do with you?" Redd asked. "M-maybe you could-" Jack began. The Cat raised a paw. "I know." "It was a rhetorical… — Frank Beddor
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of… — Stephen Jay Gould
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass… — Gary Wolf
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer… — Russell Smith
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines… — Virginia Postrel
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. — Claes Oldenburg

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