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Quotes About Anagram

For much of the time we were tramping through wet fields of sago, and a foolish but happy thought suddenly occurred to me. We were walking through the only known anagram of my name -- which is Sago Mud Salad.
~ Douglas Adams
Frog backward is GO RF.
~ Raymond Federman
Silent is an anagram of listen.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
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
It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
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
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
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
Evil" is an inverted anagram of "live." As we live our life, learn to tame our own private demons and conquer evil with a good, pure, humble, courageous, patient heart.
~ Angelica Hopes
Silent is an anagram of listen.
~ Johnny Rich
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
UTSL, which Maxine at first takes for an anagram of LUST or possibly SLUT but later learns is Unix for "Use The Source, Luke.
~ Thomas Pynchon
"Silent" and "listen" are spelled with the same letters.
~ Author Unknown
but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram...
~ Lemony Snicket
An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'.
~ Christopher Bram
Interestingly, 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the same letters just moved around. This was discovered by director Joe Johnston using an anagram program on his computer.
~ Homer Hickam
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
We were standing near the Lollipop Forest when we realized that Santa is an anagram of Satan... Overhearing the customers we would substitute the Satan for the world Santa.
~ David Sedaris
y la palabra Ama, anagrama donde el poder y el amor se igualan.
~ Unknown
Surely it's no coincidence that the word listen is an anagram of the word silent.
~ Unknown
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
Recently I realized that silent is an anagram for listen. It is the voice that comes from the silence that the writer or artist must listen to.
~ Unknown