Attitude Quote by Edwin H Friedman

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

— Marshall McLuhan

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other…

— Grant Morrison

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

— Mick Jagger

“Dou comigo a pensar se figuras de estilo não serão, afinal, as silhuetas dos corpos humanos que tão ardentemente desejamos ou abominamos. I find…

— Victor Eustáquio

But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then…

— Ogden Nash

Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made…

— Jenna Black

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

— Trevanian

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

— Theodore Parker

“It will not, however, affect one tiny bit the question of whether the text has a literal meaning because—mark this—every biblical text has a…

— Mark Shea

“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of…

— Northrop Frye

To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of…

— Jean de la Bruyere