Top 1200 Literary Devices Quotes & Sayings - Page 10
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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.
As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.
On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David's.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.
The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.
Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.
Let the free market for wireless services and devices flourish. If the government gets out of the way, the wireless marketplace will continue to be an American success story.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
The use of computers and other mobile devices has to be so carefully controlled. As we discovered with 'Dream School' rather awkwardly, it can become a source of total disruption that destroys the co-operative learning experience.
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.
Cyanogen has done an interesting job with their version of Android - the Cyanogenmod. And they're on 50-million-plus devices. And that's just another ecosystem that we wanted to tap into and to bring our Office apps to.
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
We have a large number of people working in AI. If you look around homes and the workplace, there are all these sensors in many devices. This is what people commonly call the Internet of Things.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.
My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software.
One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.
I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.
We think the right categorization for digital devices is something you hold in your hand, a mobile-type product, and something you sit two feet away from.
Strong automotive and enterprise sales and the positive impact of our expanded license agreement with Microsoft more than offset the loss of revenue from the former devices and services business.
A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.
If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.
We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
