Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech.… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure… — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“..the poem is made of sequences in which images, figures of speech and rhythm are undivided. One needs to enter this ‘undivision’",… — Michel Deguy Copy Share Image
“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
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
However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing,… — Reginald John Campbell Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“...hear the language, this English, double-jointed as Bedivere's limbs. It only sounds awkward. In its ability to join one concept to another… — Parke Godwin Copy Share Image
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
“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
“When it comes to speaking about sin, Paul is clear in his message to the Jews that the law cannot justify them,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“As a Gospel, Matthew is an ancient biography, and the information treated in the introduction to the Gospels in general also applies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Very Like a Whale One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Symbols are valuable tools of communication. Symbols communicate truth concisely, and they communicate it graphically. In Revelation 11 the apostle John could… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“It will not, however, affect one tiny bit the question of whether the text has a literal meaning because—mark this—every biblical text… — Mark Shea Copy Share Image
“Clinically speaking, hysteria is - not only among the religious - the ability to somatize figures of speech; from a philosophical perspective,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“All theology is a doomed but necessary attempt to express the inexpressible. God is the elusive mystery we try to capture and… — Richard Holloway 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
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
![“Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.” quote by Mos Def](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/26c/mos-def-3481_built_mos-def-is-a-name-that-i-built-and-culti_796597.jpg)
