Download or read book The Encarta Book of Quotations written by Bill Swainson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 25,000 quotations drawn from the history, politics, literature, religions, science, and popular culture of the world--ranging from the earliest Chinese sages through Shakespeare to the present day.
Download or read book Book of African American Quotations written by Joslyn Pine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original collection of quotations cites approximately 100 well-known African Americans from all walks of life, including Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison.
Download or read book Music written by Herb Galewitz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 400 memorable quotes about the world of music, from Fred Allen to Oscar Wilde, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Florian Zabach. Wonderful for public speakers or just browsing.
Download or read book We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live written by Joan Didion and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Why Do We Quote written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .
Download or read book Yellow Back Radio Broke Down written by Ishmael Reed and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner's swine." And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo and one of America's most innovative and celebrated writers. Reed demolishes white American history and folklore as well as Christian myth in this masterful satire of contemporary American life. In addition to the black, satanic Loop Garoo Kid, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down features Drag Gibson (a rich, slovenly cattleman), Mustache Sal (his nymphomaniac mail-order bride), Thomas Jefferson and many others in a hilarious parody of the old Western.
Download or read book Wit and Wisdom of the American Presidents written by Joslyn Pine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 400 memorable quotes: Coolidge's "The chief business of America is business," Carter's "Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread," Bush's "Read my lips: no new taxes," many more.
Download or read book Quotations for Public Speakers written by Robert G. Torricelli and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles over 2,000 quotations by almost 1,000 authors on more than fifty subjects including age and aging, education, friendship, idealism, unity, society, race and ethnicity, and leadership.
Download or read book A Collection of Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oscar Wilde s Wit and Wisdom written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.
Download or read book The Friends of Voltaire written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Famous Quotations written by Charles Kyriakou and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Book of Famous Quotes - 10,000 Famous Quotations to Inspire, Motivate, Comfort and Cheer You! The Ultimate Book of Famous Quotes is perhaps the biggest collection of quotations on Amazon, and at 10,000 entries is up to five times larger than comparable publications to date. This huge collection of quotations has been carefully curated to give you that "light bulb moment" on reading each and every quote. Whether that be to give you a new perspective on life and living, or simply to make you laugh out loud, this collection will not disappoint.The Ultimate Book of Quotes contains quotations from notables throughout history to the present day - from Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Mahatma Gandhi, all the way to cultural heroes from stage, screen and fashion, such as Coco Chanel and Lady Gaga. The range of quotations is simply astounding, and the number and diversity of notables whose contribution have been catalogued will amaze you. I very much hope that this book will continue to be a go-to reference to you for years to come.Each quotation is shown along side the famous person it is ascribed to, and all quotations are grouped by category so that you can find important quotations associated with your interests.
Download or read book History in Quotations written by M. J. Cohen and published by Orion. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and original work of historical reference. From the Iraq of ancient Babylon to the Iraq war of 2003 - taking in the histories of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia in a grand global sweep. It uses the innovative medium of some 9000 chronologically arranged quotations of more than 5000 years of recorded history.
Download or read book Tyger written by Adrian Mitchell and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1971 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the life and works of William Blake.
Download or read book Best Quotations for All Occasions written by Lewis C. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Quotations written by Jim Fisher and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LITERARY QUOTATIONS: GENRE is an informative and entertaining collection of quotes by writers, editors, critics, journalists, and literary agents on the subject of literary genre. The quotes also touch on the subjects of craft, creativity, publishing, and the writing life. LITERARY QUOTATIONS: GENRE was compiled, edited, and arranged by Jim Fisher, writer, professor emeritus at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and former FBI agent. Fisher is the author of nine nonfiction books, including TEN PERCENT OF NOTHING (Southern Illinois University Press), an expose of a bogus literary agent, and THE WRITER'S QUOTE BOOK: 500 AUTHORS ON CREATIVITY, CRAFT, AND THE WRITER'S LIFE (Rutgers University Press). He is also the author of the Literary Quotations Collected Blog (literaryquotationscollected.blogspot.com) and the popular Jim Fisher True Crime Blog (jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com).
Download or read book Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers written by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
