Homophone Quotes & Sayings

I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me. — Mary Roach

The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry. — George Steiner

I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope. — Sara Zarr

You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all. — Rainbow Rowell

Society has no place for active lunatics. — Snoo Wilson

Anyone else find it funny that Bernie Madoff's last name is a homophone of 'made-off'? — David C. Holley

This is not the story of my marriage. I cannot tell that story: I cannot take hold of, or lay out for anyone, the many swamps and grasses and pockets of fresh air and dank air that have gone over us. — Elizabeth Strout

ghost44: Guess you don't think I'm Jessica Keen anymore.
johnnyrotten: No. Definitely not.
ghost44: What makes you so sure?
johnnyrotten: Because the only time I don't get that empty feeling is when I'm messaging you. — Todd Mitchell

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future. — Tony Campolo

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami