Epistrophe Quotes

#1. Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. A lock isn't going to stop us. Not when we've come all this way.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Religion provides the solace for the turmoil that it creates.

Byron Danelius

#4. Most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely.

Charles Bukowski

#5. I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Antoine Predock

#6. While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#7. There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

Joan Didion

#8. I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

Clive Barker

#9. The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

Mike Pence

#10. Love is the greatest gift, we can give to each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.

Bonnie Tyler