Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

John Green

You live for pretentious metaphors.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Florence King

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

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

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.

Jodi Smallcomb

We are a little over halfway there. For our last fundraising event, we want to push it over the top.

Bob Beamon

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

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.

Emily Berrington

My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else's lines to ask if she liked my costume. I've learnt not to do that now.

Schatzi Hageman

He was halfway red and halfway loving it.

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.

Bill Gates

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

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