Peroration Quotes & Sayings

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. — Robert Motherwell

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion. — El-P

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it. — Ambrose Bierce

Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive? — Lynda Barry

There should be more or less of a jumble in your head or on your note paper after the first time and even after the second. Much that you will think of in connection will come to nothing and be wasted. But some of it ought to go together under one idea. That idea is the thing to write on and write into the title at the head of your paper ... One idea and a few subordinate ideas - [the trick is] to have those happen to you as you read and catch them - not let them escape you ... The sidelong glance is what you depend on. You look at your author but you keep the tail of your eye on what is happening over and above your author in your own mind and nature. — Robert Frost

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us. — Francesco Petrarca

peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to — Hilary Mantel

Professor Osterweis taught us how to structure a speech: introduction, three main points, peroration, and conclusion. — George W. Bush

Not everything that tastes good is good! — Eric Plotts

I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know ... they just didn't do it for me. — Laura Ramsey

His peroration, no doubt — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence. — Ben Hecht