Hypotaxis Quotes & Sayings

I am like a table
that eats its own legs off
because it's fallen
in love with the floor. — Cate Marvin

Yet hypotaxis (along with reason) has been declining for a century or more. Gone are those heady and incomprehensible sentences of Johnson, Dickens, and Austen, replaced with the cruel, brutalist parataxes of writers whose aim is to agitate and distress. The long sentence is now a ridiculed rarity, usually hidden away in the Terms and Conditions, its commas and colons, clauses and caveats languishing unread and unloved. — Mark Forsyth

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl. — Meredith Brooks

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got. — Michael Caine

No exclusive," I said aloud, watching Al for his opinion and seeing him shake his head and hold his hands out in a "bigger" gesture. He didn't even know how large the offer was, and he thought I could get one bigger. — Kim Harrison

Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it. — Julie Powell

Ants are driven by fear. — Lauren Oliver

Angry letters of complaint, redundancy notices and ransom notes will, if written in careful hypotaxis, sound as reasonable, measured and genial as a good dose of rough Enlightenment pornography. — Mark Forsyth

If you are psychic you may see that the smiling faces aren't smiling at all, inside. You can eliminate those individuals from your life and cancel their effect. — Frederick Lenz

Ice is for death and endings. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't ... But I am not a bully. — Chris Christie

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. — Mahmoud Darwish

No matter how hard it gets, I'd rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss — Chino XL

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try. — Linda Sanchez

A masterpiece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. — Gertrude Stein

Hope keeps us alive. Life is interesting because of egocentric hope and love full sprit. — Debasish Mridha