Periphrastic Epithet Quotes & Sayings

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. — Chris Crutcher

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. — Tori Amos

across his eyes, then sorrow, before he lowered his chin. — MaryLu Tyndall

The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy. — Penelope Hobhouse

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity. — Henry A. Kissinger

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly. — Terry Goodkind

A lot of young people ran away: you could do it back then just because you were bored. You didn't even need a tragedy. — Emma Cline

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them. — Paul McGann

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind. — Suzanne Collins

But one day the man was faced with the loss of something precious. And he knew in that moment that what really mattered to him were the people he loved: his nephew, and his friends, and the woman who'd taught him that magic is real - and that love is real, too." He paused. "And that cats purr between twenty and a hundred and forty hertz. — Abigail Strom

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being by any special name. He is symbolized by what may be termed the heiroglyphic of a pyramid, /. In prayer they address Him by a name which they deem too sacred to confide to a stranger, and I know it not. In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good. The letter V, symbolical of the inverted pyramid, where it is an initial, nearly always denotes excellence of power; as Vril, of which I have said so much; Veed, an immortal spirit; Veed-ya, immortality; — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When I'm pushed, I shove. — James Garner

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses. — Euripides

I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds. — Gavin Extence