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.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Jeff Smith

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

Gaston Bachelard

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

Florence King

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

Mike Birbiglia

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

Daniel Woodrell

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

Bobby Bowden

When they pick the all-time missed field-goal coach, I'll probably get the award. We're masters at that.

Jules Verne

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Zeresenay Alemseged

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Dave Parker

He is 50-50 right now for the Masters but we should know more after the operation.

Bobby Darin

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

Bryant H. McGill

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

Alexander Lowen

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Aaron Allston

I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.