Acrostics Quotes

#1. Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

Robert Benchley

#3. I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.

Mary McCarthy

#5. Acrostics in French or acrostics in Hebrew were still Greek to him.

Dorothy Dunnett

#6. Falling from the sky like the rain,
And I fly and sing like the little birds...,
Movements that are not in vain,
Everything has a life made of words.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#7. At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

Rankin

#8. It's easy to live loved when I feel loved.

Lysa TerKeurst

#9. It doesn't matter how old you are.
It does matter how much you care.

Debasish Mridha

#10. hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match,we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard to catch.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#11. I never said that. I just didn't correct you when you were, you know, wrong. Anyway, I just saved you from being burned to death, so I figure you're not allowed to be mad. -Jace

Cassandra Clare

#12. All the pilgrims rushed out to see. I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I did not eat much.

Joseph Conrad

#13. I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.

Deborah Moggach

#14. Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

Barry Zito

#15. Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.

Lorrie Moore

#16. Oh my god! Madison, what is with you and non-human guys?

Cherie Colyer

#17. Frank told me once
and I don't know whether he's right or not, and I didn't tell Sam this either
that all the best undercovers have a dark thread woven into them, somewhere.

Tana French

#18. Don't wait for miracles, prepare your miracles.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I didn't really give them anymore than one choice, soda or no soda. They didn't ... whereas we put a lot of stock in the differences between soda ...

Sheena Iyengar

#20. Latin is a dead tongue
And Romans made songs!
Then no one disagree:
It delighted them in theory
Now it's "the Latin" in me.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#21. As soon as the train pulled into the station, the red guards would pour out of doors and windows like toothpaste squirting endlessly from a tube.

Yu Hua

#22. Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.

Pearl Zhu

#23. Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.

Howard Zinn