Aposiopesis Rhetoric Quotes & Sayings

I have a big heart. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Those who die in battle are burned, their ashes used to make the marble arches that you see here. The blood and bone of demon slayers is itself a powerful protection against evil. Even in death, the Clave serves the cause. — Cassandra Clare

Love was a pathway to cruel pain. It was the arrow that Fate always kept aimed at your back. — Jonathan Maberry

In fiction, especially in texts that are framed by a storytelling situation, aporia is a favourite device of narrators to arouse curiosity in their audience, or to emphasize the extraordinary nature of the story they are telling. It is often combined with another figure of rhetoric, "aposiopesis", the incomplete sentence or unfinished utterance, usually indicated on the page by a trail of dots ... — David Lodge

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. — Louis Pasteur

that you didn't know what to do except smash your face into hers, back when kissing was not a signpost along the way but rather the destination itself. — Nathan Hill

Not one is dissatisfied ... not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not — Walt Whitman

I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read. — Khaled Hosseini

I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way. — Rajneesh

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. — Will Rogers

I took your name when I took those vows
I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now. — The Band Perry

'The Host' is very much in the same vein as 'Twilight', and there's clearly a huge fan base out there. But I can't imagine myself being as huge as Robert Pattinson. I'm not sure I could handle that level of fame. — Max Irons

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated. — Adrien Brody

A little love and attention can go a long way ... too bad more people don't realize that. — Frank E. Peretti

What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in a moment, as a crowd will, and in five minutes to have splashed all the sons and daughters of Adam. — Charles Dickens

He was filled with loss and an off-brand of nostalgia for events that were supposed to become part of his past but now wouldn't at all. In the mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists in the real world; it is all out on the train somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there. He and Mize had been through two solid years of such regular time-warp escapes together. There was something different about that, something beyond friendship; they had a way of transferring pain back and forth, without the banality of words. — John L. Parker Jr.