Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence King

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

Griffin Dunne

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

Gaston Bachelard

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

Jeff Smith

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

Howard Finster

I never met someone I did not love.

Guy de Maupassant

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Ville Valo

Everyone wants to pretend their cock is big and metal is the medium, but ultimately it's about the songs.

Every metal has been taking it on the chin.

Amy Ray

As soon as they met us, I think everyone was more comfortable.

Bill Clinton

Once we met here as adversaries, today we work as partners.

Douglas Booth

I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met.

The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by the waist-to-hip ratio,

The stress is out of the way, we're putting the pedal to the metal for state and district.

John Donne

Though she were true, when you met her,/ And last, till you write your letter, / Yet she / Will be / False, ere I come, to two, or three.

I've never met a police officer who didn't see bloodshot eyes.

Through various different methods they've managed to squeeze residential construction.

John Carney

I see you met my friend, Mr. Rodney Harrison.

Carly Patterson

I've been pretty busy. I've traveled a lot and met a lot of different people and I'm in the process of recording a demo.

As a coach, you're just thinking up ways to fix, fix, fix, fix, fix. This is just another method that we tried this week.

Armando Iannucci

The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.

Martha Coakley

The method by which he administered this was through Gatorade,

The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

Sophia Bush

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Bob Edwards

I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,

Russell Allen

I met a lot of nice people here, ... but it outlived its usefulness. I would rather see it replaced than just sit here and deteriorate.

If you have a piece of sheet metal in there, it's not going to work.

Robert Sterling

In the off-line world, people use different payment methods in different circumstances,

Bud Selig

I do have a lot of concerns but I am happy to say the Mets aren't one of them.

Evan Parker

Improvisation is a compositional method.

Glenn Danzig

To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest

Fred Melamed

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.