Quotes About Anagrams

#1. And yet, protest it if we will,
Some corner of the mind retains
The medieval man, who still
Keeps watch upon those starry skeins
And drives us out of doors at night
To gaze at anagrams of light.

Adrienne Rich

#2. I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

Douglas Adams

#3. Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and Haether Gharam.

Zach Braff

#4. I loved my girlfriend, but we were two people separated by an 'and'; my father and I were anagrams.

Ben Moore

#5. Okay, so anagrams. That's one. Got any other charming talents?" she asked, and now he felt confident.
Finally, Colin turned to her, gathering in his gut the slim measure of courage available to him, and said, "Well, I'm a fair kisser.

John Green

#6. The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.

Ashwin Sanghi

#7. We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

Maggie O'Farrell

#8. 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

#9. The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.

Hans Bellmer

#10. I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

Will Advise

#11. Read the book of life or a life in a book: it's all epigraphs and anagrams.

Johnny Rich

#12. Looking at Death, is Dying - ...

Emily Dickinson

#13. I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.

Ian Brown

#14. In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.

Martin McGuinness

#15. The future is plump with promise.

Maya Angelou

#16. Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.

Patty Duke

#17. The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

Umberto Eco

#18. Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred.

Elie Wiesel

#19. As for complicating the black metal aesthetic, I don't care about that since it was never a goal of mine to lay out any particular preconceived aesthetic, let alone one of traditional black metal where pseudonyms are adopted.

Colin Marston

#20. Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals
TWELVE PLUS ONE,
And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN,
You will find my DICTIONARY
is quite INDICATORY.
If you want to read my story, just look ...
THEN UNREAD.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#21. Silent is an anagram of listen.

Johnny Rich

#22. I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.

Delia Smith

#23. Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

LZ Granderson

#24. Some sober part of my brain seemed to observe everything I did, clucking disdainfully, informing me that ought to be embarrassed, yet making no move

Rachel Hartman

#25. My name is only an anagram of toilets.

T. S. Eliot

#26. I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

Albert Einstein

#27. But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

Rachel Joyce

#28. Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.

Eric Murray