Enthymeme Quotes

#1. Avoid the enthymeme form when you are trying to rouse feeling; for it will either kill the feeling or will itself fall flat: all simultaneous motions tend to cancel each other either completely or partially.

Aristotle.

#2. I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.

Nicole Beharie

#3. Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.

Hannah Arendt

#4. Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

Alistair Cooke

#5. I don't like movies where everything happens fast. I like the buildup, the obstacles, the mystery.

Matt Dillon

#6. My thoughts kept straying onto random paths ... hoping to get lost in a thicket.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. Before she could look to find a wound he had control of the vision once again, but like a juggler attempting to hold too many balls in the air catching one meant loosing another.

Clive Barker

#8. [The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Ben Jonson

#9. The short story is the literature of the nomad.

John Cheever

#10. No one of us can be free until we are all free.

Various

#11. John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

Mick Fleetwood

#12. Why would you do that? (Delphine) Why do you think? (Jericho) Because I'm a bossy hag and you'd rather be enslaved to a man you hate than deal with me. (Delphine) You know ... you're not funny. (Jericho) I think I'm hysterical. (Delphine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

H.W. Brands