Metonymy Examples Quotes

#1. Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

Floyd Skloot

#2. When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I've been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey.

Chris Christie

#3. It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It

Thomas Bernhard

#4. I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

Howard Fast

#5. It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Barry Mann

#6. There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words.

David Halberstam

#7. I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.

Jon Krakauer

#8. Friends who kiss might be good.

Cindi Madsen

#9. One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

Johan Huizinga

#10. Destiny might drop you off somewhere but it's your job to get where you're going, to decide your own ending ...

Rebecca Serle

#11. Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#12. Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

Alice Miller

#13. War is murder writ large.

Carl Sagan

#14. I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

Rachel Platten

#15. If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination

Nigel Worthington