Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.
I mean, I'm not a contrarian.
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.
If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.
I don't have problems with nobody, period.
I'm the best corner in the game!
I am not a small guy - I will be the first to say it.
Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.
I'm no chump.
No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.
Ah, tell them they are men!
I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now.
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.
