Caleb Cushing

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

American Diplomat

Amy Waldman

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

American Author

Gregory Benford

The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.

American Physicist

Howard Jacobson

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

British Novelist

Ephraim Mirvis

Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.

South African Clergyman

Richard Dawkins

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

English Scientist

Matthew Sweet

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

American Musician

K. Flay

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

Clifton Fadiman

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

American Writer

Jamila Woods

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

Understanding the reference allusion makes often requires knowledge of the culture from which it originates.

Cultural Familiarity

An allusion is usually subtle, so it does not explicitly mention the thing it refers to.

Subtlety Key

Detecting an allusion may be challenging and can be missed if you're not familiar with the subject.

Recognition Challenge

 Some people find it impenetrable without a full book of annotations to help them understand what Joyce is even talking about. But there's a lot of joy to be found in reading it, more than just unpacking allusions and solving puzzles.

Why should you read...

 these traits do seem a little bit sneaking on the African plains survival is uncertain the struggle to find enough food avoid predation and despite the elements succeed is testing even for the most resilient of species from allusions

Why Are Zebras Black and...

 What I want to do this morning is share with you a couple of stories and talk about a different Africa. Already this morning there were some allusions to the Africa that you hear about all the the Africa of HIV/AIDS,

Allusion