Anagrams Quotes

• My name is only an anagram of toilets.

  T. S. Eliot

  Names, Toilets

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• All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

  John Banville

  Lying, Way, Lied

  John Banville (2011). “Shroud”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• The truth is an anagram of an anagram.

  Umberto Eco

  Truth, Truth Is

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• I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

  Banksy

  Art, Clever, Years

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and Haether Gharam.

  Zach Braff

  Names, Female, Yeah

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• An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles.

  Slash

  Sex, Rose, Erotic

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• Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

  Alfred Brendel

  Silence, Remember, Silent

  "An A-Z of the piano: Alfred Brendel's notes from the concert hall" by Alfred Brendel, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.

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• The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.

  Hans Bellmer

  Real, Body, Endless

  Hans Bellmer, Stephen S. Prokopoff, Krannert Art Museum (1991). “Hans Bellmer, photographs: 23 February to 31 March 1991”

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• But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

  Daniel Handler

  Hair, Too Late, Our Love

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• We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Hands, Identity, World

  Maggie O'Farrell (2008). “The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.

  Lorrie Moore

  Girlfriend, Writing, School

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• Yes, okay, it's cool to be quirky, maybe, on the side. Do some puzzles, make puzzles, whatever, learn how to ride a unicycle. That's cool when it's on the side and you have a plan. What happens when you remove the plan? What you're left with is a guy who likes to do anagrams. And doesn't have a job... Sweet, that's a catch.

  Demetri Martin

  Sweet, Jobs, Guy

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• The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves.

  John Fowles

  Autumn, Smell, Lakes

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• This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

  Robert Benchley

  Night, Office, Modern Life

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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