Quotes About Stylistic Devices

#1. In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said ... of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

Susan Sontag

#2. Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock!

Katherine Givens

#3. Frozen by fear. Not able to move. Your mind screaming

James Dashner

#4. All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers.

Ole H.

#5. The prime minister says he has a vision for change, well put that to the people of the country.

David Cameron

#6. There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

Epictetus

#7. I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

Karl Lagerfeld

#8. I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.

Betty White

#9. Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

Paul Erdos

#10. [Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

Arundhati Roy

#11. A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.

Etienne Davodeau

#12. When I registered for econ, I had no idea that I'd be in for this level of reality-show drama. It's like a big fat bonus.

Tammara Webber

#13. Kansas City, that's like in Kansas, right?" I ask. "Missouri," Frank and Dad both correct.

Julie Cross