Jimmie Vaughan Quotes & Sayings

The beauty of merism is that it's absolutely unnecessary. It's words for words' sake: a gushing torrent of invention filled with noun and noun and signifying nothing. Why a rhetorical figure that gabs on and on for no good reason should be central to the rite of marriage is beyond me. — Mark Forsyth

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film. — Peter Hedges

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. — William Zinsser

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. — Tertullian

He returned to his seat and sat down; the road is so long, so long; he had to get through these spaces where stations clustered about the track amidst the black night like some black coffin set with candles. He thought that minute was flying after minute, mile after mile, everything was moving - even he was moving - but to where?

("Adam") — Andrei Bely

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. — Charles De Gaulle