Quotes & Sayings About Homophones

And I knew I was walking into this alone. And that was for the best. — Kiera Cass

When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them. — Penn Badgley

Jake looked at us like we should know this already. SMB? Sandwich-Making Bitch. — Molly McAdams

It is made up of one character each from the names of three of the major female protagonists of the novel (P'an Chin-lien, Li P'ing-erh, and P'ang Ch'un-mei) that would literally mean Gold Vase Plum; it can be semantically construed as The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Plum Blossoms in a Golden Vase; and it puns with three near homophones that might be rendered as The Glamour of Entering the Vagina. — David Tod Roy

He looks like the kind of boy who would jump trains, strum guitars, and pass a joint. — Heather Demetrios

The reaction of the people below to this fantastic sight and sound was one of wild excitement. Details could be seen vividly from aloft. An elderly man and woman fell to their knees and prayed. People in the villages stood still and gaped upward. Most of them still had their Sunday finery on. "You could see people going to church...man, wife, and child walking along the country roads." Bombardier Herbert Light, through his binoculars, saw an open-air festival in progress, with the women dressed in colorful skirts and blouses. One of them threw her apron over her head in panic.
As they roared over the wheat fields, the first unfriendly acts occurred: farmers threw stones and pitchforks at them. One farmer leading two horses was startled by the advancing planes and leaped into a nearby stream. A girl swimming in another river was reported by ten separate crews. — Leon Wolff

She felt ... less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain. — Patrick Rothfuss

Exploitation of the Negro through economic restriction and segregation the present system is sound and will doubtless continue until this gives place to the saner policy of actual interracial cooperation
not the present farce of racial manipulation in which the Negro is a figurehead. — Carter G. Woodson

The old Chinese sage Chuang-tzu, for example, said: Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang-tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang-tzu. — Jostein Gaarder

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing. — Jeet Thayil

There has only ever been you. There. Will. Only. Ever. Be. You. — Mia Sheridan

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable. — Charlie Huston

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is taking a daughter-in-law. — Maxine Hong Kingston

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated. — Jeanette Winterson

The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future. — James Joyce

We don't know the contour of feeling;
we only know what molds it from without. — Rainer Maria Rilke