"Metaphor is embodied in language." — Dennis Potter
"Metaphor is embodied in language."
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Dennis Potter
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38 Quotes by Dennis Potter
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A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things…
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Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh,…
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
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Everything we do has consequences.
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
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More Embodied Quotes
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due…
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England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished…
— John Cleese
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a…
— B R Ambedkar
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The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased…
— August Weismann
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Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible…
— Frank Waters
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All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the…
— Thomas Huxley
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[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms,…
— Clifford Geertz
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At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of…
— Corinne Heline
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To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
— Khalil Gibran
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