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“Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.”

Source: Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985

“They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.”

Believe Stills Stuff Angel Logic Clarity Believe In God Witch Alienation Obsolete Punctuation Allusion Quench Goblin

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.”

Thinking Men Should Mean Has Beens Made Country Law Opportunity Land Conditions Should Have Worthy Every Man Presidential Consideration Allusion Homestead Act

Book:CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions

Source: CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions

“This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion”

Ends Use Film Cases Clear Modern Humour Distance Pops Critical Advertising Spy Ambiguity Complicity Allusion Collusion

Book:The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures

Source: The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures

“Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.”

Heart Made Spirit Tests Allusion

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.”

“One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and that extensive biographical material would be available. He was observed by multitudes of people, and his own followers numbered into the hundreds (1 Cor. 15:6), whose witness was still living in the middle of the first century. As a matter of fact, the amount of information concerning him is comparatively meager. Aside from the four Gospels, and a few scattered allusions in the epistles, contemporary history is almost silent concerning him.”

“Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.”

Community Religious Emotional Speech Assuming Metaphor Extremes Believer Devices Literal Allusion Rhetorical

Author:Amy Waldman

“The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.”

Time Expression Limits Separation Spite Allusion Designation

Author:Abdelkader El Djezairi

“Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.”

Light Eye Form Language Challenges Design Color Balance Harmony Intellect Scales Symbols Tension Visuals Graphic Graphic Design Pun Inference Uniting Allusion

Author:Jessica Helfand

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”

Writing Wells Reading Healing Education Creativity Creative Creative Writing Exam Literary Criticism Allusion Creative Writers Funny Exam American Scholar

Book:Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838

“I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.”

Feels Success Fun Records Radio Studios Having Fun Allusion

Author:Matthew Sweet

“Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.”

“The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.”

Thinking Art Ideas Sometimes Together Reading Violence Reader Surprise Improvement Admire Comparison Metaphysics Subtlety Illustration Allusion Nature And Art

Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).”

Science Used Term Learning Mere Acquire Tails Pope Superficial Hunters Consulting Allusion Eels Superficial Knowledge

Author:Tobias Smollett