Litotes Examples Quotes & Sayings

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh

A bad workman blames his tools. — Daphne Du Maurier

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement. — Christopher Hitchens

You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do. — Cal Ripken Jr.

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist
ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. — Jonathan Carroll

I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb. — Jeff Lindsay

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment. — Leona Helmsley

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. — Bernard Williams

I just want to go to work and play dress up, like, for the rest of my life. — Chelsea Kane