Famous Quotes Using Metaphors

21 phrases you use without realizing youre quoting shakespeare. A piece of wit a jest a simile or a quotation of an author passes for a mighty argument.

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I think for many years i was aware of the need in dance and in life to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

Famous quotes using metaphors. Famous metaphors stealing the language. Maybe we can use a metaphor for it out of dance. Instantly evoke images of wooden stages and elizabethan costumes.

We should mind our metaphors though because metaphors make up our minds. One of the metaphors that i use for start ups is you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the way down. 121 quotes have been tagged as metaphors.

Metaphors hide in plain sight and their influence is largely unconscious. Mortality puts priorities into sharp focus. We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion they would depict the devil in human form.

The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo. If you dont solve the right problem at the right time thats the end. An idealist is one who on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage concludes that it.

This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted have made them the sport of orators poets and men of wit. Ostrikers book is a must read for any poet woman or person interested in contemporary issues. James geary american journalist and author in metaphors in mind at the macmillan dictionary blog 11 april 2011.

Here are 21 phrases you use but may not have known came from the bard of avon. Life 1021 quotes dont compare your life to others. Our bodies have evolved to move yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. But an incredible number of lines from his plays have become so ingrained into modern vernacular that we no longer recognize them as lines from plays at all. The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease cancer stroke diabetes alzheimers and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise.

The emergence of womens poetry in america an amazing book by alicia ostriker which was recommended by another of my mentors jeanne marie beaumont.