Illocutionary Example Quotes

#1. Achievers are not scared to make mistakes or to fail because they are willing to learn from them. They are determined to start all over again and again until they grasp the concept.

Euginia Herlihy

#2. Most people have everything they need to be happy.

Karen McQuestion

#3. There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

Joanna Scott

#4. Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope.

Sri Chinmoy

#5. artist, musician,

John Ortberg

#6. It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. ( ... ) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.

Milan Kundera

#7. I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.

John Atkinson

#8. Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

William S. Burroughs

#9. Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

William Booth

#10. All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.

Van Morrison