Figurative Speech Quotes

#1. Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!

Courtney Milan

#2. When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.

Vincent Cassel

#3. Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.

Clayton Christensen

#4. To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Sissela Bok

#5. I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

Lynn Abbey

#6. Behind her leg a shy little girl - Grace - smiling up. "Dad?" It was a kind hope. But his dreams spoke to none of that: when he slept he dreamt of darkness, or of people he did not recognize, or of water closing slowly, almost gratefully, over his head.

Anthony Doerr

#7. All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

Russell Brand

#9. Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Heraclitus

#10. I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

Shailene Woodley

#11. This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

Meghan Daum

#12. A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.

James Dobson

#13. Geek e-mail sign-off: No trees were killed to send this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. Your margin is my opportunity

Jeff Bezos

#15. When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.

Calvin Miller

#16. She said, A king is the best and worst of men. Of course. Of course.

David Anthony Durham