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Arthur Quinn
"The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle" --
Source : Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.
Arthur Quinn
#Omission Quotes
#Government Quotes
#People Quotes
“Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?”
“Everyone's showing their thong out the back of their jeans. But you shouldn't wear any. You get a better line if you wear no knickers.”
“Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.”
“Studios are so used to digital now and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance, digital is great for night exteriors, everybody knows it's a video tap, so it's very responsive to light. So you can go out at night, shoot with digital and it's gorgeous, beautiful to look at . Conversely, you go out and shoot day exterior, and it slams you, just like you know from your own video recording.”
Source : Source: collider.com
“I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.”
“Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.”
“But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.”
Source : Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.48
“I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.”
