"With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical." — Mike Birbiglia

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This quote is filed under Elliptical Quotes, one of 25 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round… — Unknown Author
• Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants… — Bergen Evans
• For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked… — Molly Sims
• The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks… — Gail Caldwell
• [T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there… — Tyler Burge
• In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in… — Karen Russell
• The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the… — Laurie R. King
• The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a… — Rudolf Arnheim
• The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has… — Mark Driscoll
• Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character… — Forrest Gander
• As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short… — Neil Gaiman
• I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I… — Claire Danes

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