Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

J. T. Walsh

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Mike Birbiglia

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Martin H. Fischer

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Werner Herzog

I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.

Harold Bloom

I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

Grant Heslov

That's like a word in the dictionary now. It doesn't surprise me, but it makes me kinda sad. And it makes me a little frightened.

Iyanla Vanzant

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

Jeri Ryan

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.