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From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way. — Hayley Atwell

The notes weren't played," he went on, "They were poured from a Grecian urn. — Marisha Pessl

Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. — Clifton Fadiman

An allusion is something we refuse to see, but we see what we want to see ... — Edna Stewart

Open wide the mind's cage-door,
She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar. — John Keats

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box. — Morgan Freeman

True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us. — Mark Hart

Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe. — Alan W. Watts

Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore I must speak. — Plato

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

By the windmills of Babyland he sat down and wept. — Neil Gaiman

[ ... ] no carrot would be permitted in a soup that had not first assumed a rhomboidal or trapezoidal shape. — Ivan Turgenev

The last time I saw Paris.
Her heart was warm and gay. — Oscar Hammerstein II

The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately. — Nina Simone

Great difference between the priests and the Upanishads. The Upanishads say, renounce. — Swami Vivekananda

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. — Carlos Fuentes

Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay. — Christalyn Brannen

She became a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude, and so many columnists made allusion to Icarus that Private Eye ran a special column. — Robert Galbraith

She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady. — Drew Magary

When I'm happy like this, it's unfettered--as if I'll never feel removed from life again. — Susan Conley

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television. — Lech Walesa

Nothing is over yet, she told herself. The cat's still inside. — Emily St. John Mandel

You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more important than how people see you on the outside. — Emily Coussons

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, ... not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. — Salman Rushdie

Our covetousness will put us under unbelievable bondages — Sunday Adelaja

Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures - they all have families and ancestors, just like people. — Margaret Atwood

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. — Sherman Alexie

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism. — Evita Peron

The grave, as has been pointed out, is a fine place, not to mention a private one. — Neil Gaiman

Fangirl rage. It demands to be feared. — Zechariah Barrett

No matter who it is or what you think of them, never rejoice in the pain of others. It lowers you to a level you should not be at. — John Patrick Hickey

Suddenly, stupidly, she started singing: "If Adelita went off with another man. — Carmen Posadas