Epanalepsis Examples Quotes & Sayings

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career. — David LaChapelle

The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain. — Robert Briffault

They really do have nothing in common on paper, these people and him. But yet there are so many common reference points; even some unexpected ones ... they all want to be cool. And they're all scared but no good at showing it ... [t]hey all know how to act cool. after all, life's pretty scary most of the time. And the number one skill you need out there is how to show no fear ... Stay calm. Don't let people see that you are shy or nervous. If you watch a horror film, remember to laugh. If someone else seems scared, laugh at them. In the real world, danger is either fantasy, in which case you laugh, or too real, in which case you ignore it. — Scarlett Thomas

I'm the last of the mad ones. — Maureen Johnson

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. — Thomas Carlyle

O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever? — Angela Of Foligno

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest." — Frank Sinatra

The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground. — Stephen Vincent Benet

It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him. — Alfred P. Sloan

Because we watched her so closely out of the corners of our eyes, everything she did made too much noise, her cigarette smoke got into everything, she drank too much wine at dinner. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit. — D.H. Lawrence

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system. — Marty Meehan

My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars. — Karel Appel

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true. — Douglas Adams

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness