Ideas Quote by F. L. Lucas Download Open image “The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.” — F. L. Lucas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ideas Metaphor Side by side Sides Simile Two
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context. — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that lead a… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn...… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion,… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
