Ironie! — Aussage, die erkennen lässt, dass das Gegenteil gemeint ist Beispiel: Das hat du ja wieder toll hinbekommen!

Akkumulation

Alliteration!

Anapher!

Antithese!

Asyndeton

Chiasmus

Ellipse!

Euphemismus!

Exklamation

Hyperbel!

Inversion!

Klimax

Metapher!

Neologismus!

Paradoxon

Parallelismus!

Personifikation

Rhetorische Frage

Symbol

Synästhesie

Synekdoche

Vergleich

Zitat

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.

Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.

I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff.

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.