Polyptoton Quotes

#1. So just to recap, polyptoton is a favorite of Jesus, Shakespeare, and John Lennon.

Mark Forsyth

#2. If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.

Scott Fahlman

#3. I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

Matthew Davis

#4. Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Bertolt Brecht

#5. It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.

Mike Tyson

#6. If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

William Blake

#7. keep on keeping on

A.G. Street

#8. Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.

Sophy Burnham

#9. The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

E. O. Wilson

#10. Don't be the guy that sat spouting how greatly succesful he was to a random stranger at the airport only to find out later that random stranger was a self-made multibillinaire. OR, in shorter words ... if you toot your horn too loud, you won't hear the freight train coming down the track.

Shelley K. Wall

#11. As G. K. Chesterton wrote, "How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it."22

Ann Voskamp

#12. Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself ... I thought, cringing.

Brandon Sanderson