Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Florence King

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

John Green

You live for pretentious metaphors.

Mike Birbiglia

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

J. T. Walsh

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

Ray Bradbury

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

Kristy Curry

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Loretta Lynn

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Alan Vega

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

Frank Haith

We're above.500 (in the ACC) at the halfway point and you have to be pleased with that. But we have to understand that we're a long way from where we want to be.

Edward Murrow

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world, doesn't mean that you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Bill Gates

We're only halfway to what we think we can achieve,

Schatzi Hageman

He was halfway red and halfway loving it.

Nate Spriggs

I sat down halfway through that (sequence), I couldn't watch it any more.

Peter Henning

or a very short sentence in a halfway house.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.