Quotes About Rhetorical Devices

#1. Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Amy Waldman

#2. Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Justin Kaplan

#3. Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

Richard Neal

#4. Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell!

John Owen

#5. Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

Antoine Fuqua

#6. I am not a number; I am a free man.

Patrick McGoohan

#7. I suppose life is what you believe it to be. Perhaps believing in life is its true nature.

R.W. Erskine

#8. As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

Horace

#9. I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.

Nelson Algren

#10. Soul Born is not about good and evil, it's about the shadows that lie in-between.

Kevin James Breaux

#11. A politician has an axe to grind
With which he aims to chop off half your mind.

Chris I. Naylor

#12. You owe it to yourself to be yourself.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi