“Dou comigo a pensar se figuras de estilo não serão, afinal, as silhuetas dos corpos humanos que tão ardentemente desejamos ou abominamos.… — Victor Eustáquio Copy Share Image
It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development.… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
You must be Pain in the Nick.” – Dev “Huh?” – Nick “Don’t wet your pets. Just a figure of speech. Your… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“The Tull-Toks claim that everything in the universe can be read. Each star is a living text, where the massive convection currents… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“factual evidence to the contrary. • Delusions are held with absolute certainty, despite their falsity and impossibility. • Delusions can have a… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
