Amplifying Device Quotes & Sayings

I am a duke, you know. If I can't perform a miracle here and there I might as well be a butler in expesive clothes." He brushed at the sleeve of his well-tailored brown coat. "And butlers don't get to dance with attractive women. — Suzanne Enoch

2 In chapter 3 of The Problem of Pain, Lewis writes, We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. — William Shakespeare

If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me. — Jake M. Johnson

15. For if you look closely
At the so called idols of the world
They have something in common.
They were ignorant
They ignored the noise
They created their own path. — Priscilla Koranteng

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials. — Nancy Horan

The birds are literal representations of the witnesses of those ordinary and big moments, but they are also metaphors for time itself, for the passing of time. It occurred to me, many years after I had been here, thinking about this idea, that every moment we have with one another is really our only moment, and because of that our every moment could potentially be a goodbye, so we have to notice and notice and notice. — David Gianadda

If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture. — Joe Teti