Sentence examples for human quotation from inspiring English sources

The six were arranged on the floor, and shifted into changing tableaux; often, two dancers in a group were held so that their legs, in attitude, pointed up, like human quotation marks.

His astonishing insight into nature was matched by his understanding of human affairs, and his quotations and popular essays still reward re-reading.

The dichotomy between brain power and emotion is not really a sustained theme in "Paysage," which turns into a meditation on the world and human nature despite some quotations on tape that theoretically embody the theme as expressed by two different personalities.

Ai has worked quotations about human rights into the hand-painted designs — his own assertion that "Every one of us is a potential convict," Edward Snowden's that "Privacy is a function of liberty," and more.

Samuel Beckett used the image of the clown in Waiting for Godot to create a parable on the absurdity of the human predicament, perhaps in direct quotation of vaudeville traditions.

Any Human Heart William Boyd 503pp, Hamish Hamilton, £17.99 A quotation from Henry James furnishes the title of William Boyd's new novel: "Never say you know the last word about any human heart".

Cicero's quotation of Terence's line 'nothing human is alien to me' in the context of On Duties I.30 echoes this thought.

It's like somebody made curtain hoops out of a set of hairy quotation marks and drew them across a human face.

Also, note the quotations around "good chemistry", because an actual human connection is a construct invented by chicks.

He left a note with his clothes, a quotation from Euripides about the sea washing away all human ills.

The book begins with a quotation from Henry James, "Never say you know the last word about any human heart".