Arthur Quinn quotes

“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”
-- Arthur Quinn

Source : Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.

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“Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.”
-- Arthur Quinn

Source : Arthur Quinn (2012). “Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase”, p.5, Routledge

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“Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.”
-- Arthur Quinn

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“The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.”

“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1870). “Ginger-snaps”, p.114

“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”

“What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.”

“No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.”

“I've never needed government to hold my hand.”

Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011

“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”