Syllepsis In Literature Quotes & Sayings

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? — David Hockney

I clawed my eyes open and rolled off my bed. For some reason, someone had moved the floor several feet lower than I had expected, and I fell and crashed with a thud.
Ow.
A blond head popped over the side of the bed, and a familiar male voice asked, "Are you okay down there?"
Curran. The Beast Lord was in my bed. No, wait a minute. I didn't have a bed, because my insane aunt had destroyed my apartment. I was mated to the Beast Lord, which meant I was in the Keep, in Curran's rooms, and in his bed. Our bed. Which was four feet high. Right.
"Kate?"
"I'm fine."
"Would you like me to install one of those child playground slides for you? — Ilona Andrews

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. — Aristotle.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it. — Louis Nizer

It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child. — Jim Holt

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun. — Micky Dolenz

It's waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can't stand to wait. If you didn't get the deferred-gratification gene, you've got to work very hard to overcome that. — Charlie Munger