Elocution Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness. — Kenneth Tynan

And beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket. — Mary Higgins Clark

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange. — Andrew Solomon

My experience with My Sister Rosa showed me, once again, that I have a much easier time of it if I sell my novels after I finish them, not before. I'm lucky that I'm in a position where I'm able to do that. — Justine Larbalestier

Then something happens, and we realize that all we've fallen for is the idea of something, not the reality. — Eileen Cook

We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood. — Carl Rogers

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium. — Don DeLillo

But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence.
(Moby Dick Chapter lxxix p345) — Herman Melville

Women are emotional creatures. — Catherine Bybee