Syllepsis Quotes & Sayings

Your swoonin' needs work." his accent was back. "so does your alias," I snapped. "Dr.Smith? Seriously? Why not John Doe? And how is it that everybody around here seems to buy you're a doctor? you don't look enough to drink, let alone practice medicine — Erica O'Rourke

Experience tells me habits are stronger than love, fear, and necessity. — Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art. — Ellen Kushner

When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. — E.B. White

I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career. — Clive Davis

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough. — Gil Kane

People don't want information; they want epiphanies. — Sam Horn

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. — Jeff Daniels

We heed no instincts but our own. — Jean De La Fontaine

Be creative. Unlock your imagination. Open your noggin. Do anything. — Scott Schafer

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. — Tom Petty

We can't command our love, but we can our actions. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me. — Lea DeLaria

You're telling me that if i keep dropping bombs into a junkyard, someday all the pieces will blast together into a perfect Mercedes. that's what the big bang proposes. that's what evolution teaches. That chaos gave rise to perfection. But we know it works the other way round don't we? — Laurence B. Brown

For many people, a western lifestyle equates to living in a toxic home, working a toxic job, eating toxic food, being sick from your thirties onward and eventually dying from preventable disease. — Steven Magee