By Mardy Grothe
The work of art in eating places are on a par with the meals in museums.
America is a gigantic frosted cupcake in the course of thousands of ravenous humans.
Critics are like pigs on the pastry cart.
Describing anything via pertaining to it to a different factor is the essence of metaphorical proposal. it truly is one of many oldest actions of humankind—and essentially the most striking while performed skillfully. all through historical past, many masters of metaphor have crafted observations which are so fabulous they've got taken up an enduring place of abode in our minds.
In I by no means Metaphor I Didn't Like, citation maven Dr. Mardy Grothe fixes his cognizance at the 3 superstars of figurative language—analogies, metaphors, and similes. the result's a rare compilation of approximately 2,000 feats of organization that may entertain, train, and infrequently encourage citation fanatics in every single place.
In this highbrow smorgasbord, the writer of Oxymoronica and Viva los angeles Repartee explains figurative language in a refreshingly down-to-earth method ahead of taking readers on a travel of history's maximum notice images. In chapters on wit, love, intercourse, level and reveal, insults, politics, activities, and extra, you can find quotations from Aristotle and Maya Angelou to George Washington and Oprah Winfrey.
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And when we cultivate gardens, two things are necessary—nutrients must be added and weeds must be picked. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. W I L L I A M A RT H U R WA R D lif e- a lt er in g m et a ph or s / 39 On her final day on the Today Show in 2006, Katie Couric used this quotation—without crediting the author—to sum up her feelings toward cohost Matt Lauer and the others she had worked with during her fifteen years on the show. But beware you be not swallowed up in books!
J O H N O L I V ER H O BBES (pen name of Pearl Richards Craigie) There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. V I C TO R H U G O i n ever m et a ph or i d id n 't like / 50 The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. DAV I D H U M E There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Z O RA N E A LE H U R S TO N To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
M I C H E L D E M O N TA I G N E Montaigne did his writing in a circular room he constructed in the tower of his family chateau. His solitarium, as he called it, contained his books and writing table. He outdid my Wall of Quotes with his Beam of Quotes. ” It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way. C H R I S TO P H E R M O R L E Y When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.