Intertextuality And The Discourse Quotes & Sayings

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black. — Joan Didion

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it. — Bear Bryant

Consider the case of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Its elderly residents have unusually low end-of-life hospital costs. During their last six months, according to Medicare data, they spend half as many days in the hospital as the national average, and there's no sign that doctors or patients are halting care prematurely. Despite average rates of obesity and smoking, their life expectancy outpaces the national mean by a year. — Atul Gawande

She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill. — Ian McEwan

If high-tech companies are serious about doing the right thing, they can join together and lobby for more transparency and accountability in the way in which Chinese officialdom deals with Internet services. — Rebecca MacKinnon

I really believe in the idea of the future. — Zaha Hadid

We lay there, under the stars, the moonlight enveloping us like a letter, folded together to be forever united, skin and bone trained to get along. — Aishabella Sheikh

Just a tick past fruition sits decay. — Kristin Kimball

I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game. — Martin Henderson

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right. — Mahathir Mohamad