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A Quote by Peter Ackroyd

I had to paraphrase the paraphrase. — © Peter Ackroyd

I had to paraphrase the paraphrase.

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd

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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd
British - Novelist
Born: October 5, 1949

If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." Bokonon's paraphrase was this: "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

David Lodge

David Lodge

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

Richard Howard

Richard Howard

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.

Mason Cooley

Mason Cooley

I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

David Dreman

David Dreman

The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

Loren Eiseley

Loren Eiseley

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

Luis Federico Leloir

Luis Federico Leloir

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

John D. Voelker

John D. Voelker

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

Ha-Joon Chang

Ha-Joon Chang

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

A. J. Jacobs

A. J. Jacobs

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

George Herbert

George Herbert

To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like.

Bill Maher

Bill Maher

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