Quotes About Literary Allusions

#1. There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

Brock Clarke

#2. Ah". Tzimisces smiled. "Let me guess. Flowery periphrases, back-to-back literary allusions and quotations from thousand-year-old authors. A marked reluctance to use one word when twelve can be jammed in if you sit on the lid.

K.J. Parker

#3. You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

Jeff Foxworthy

#4. Get down,' he whispered.

'I'm way ahead of you,' Jamie said from the floor.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But what are their tastes based on? Do they tend to choose work that most resembles theirs?

Amy Tan

#6. A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

Charles Simmons

#7. Girls' night out was sacred, and that meant nothing with a penis was going to be within ten feet

Maya Banks

#8. Even in times of famine, we have more than enough to eat.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. It is possible that we are the only persons,> said another robot.

Ken MacLeod

#10. I'm good at finding things to do on my own, even if it's just reading.

Robert Webb

#11. My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

Robert Southey