Quotes About Figure Of Speech

#1. Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made a face. "I rather kiss a copperhead." I grabbed the envelop from his hand. He laughed and held up his hands in surrender. Don't worry. It was only a figure of speech.

Jenna Black

#2. It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

Vladimir Putin

#3. In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.

Edward M. Lerner

#4. The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.

Harold Rosenberg

#5. You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

Franklin P. Jones

#6. A figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

Trevanian

#8. I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Scott A. Sandage

#9. 'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood

Huangbo Xiyun

#10. For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.

Dan Simmons

#11. I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thing or in its fancy.

Norman Lock

#12. It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

Rush Limbaugh

#13. There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

Edmund Burke

#14. The thought of losing him again kills me. This is of course a figure of speech, I will remain alive, but I will not know happiness.

Liz Jensen

#15. I must do whatever I can to find the best partners possible."
"Did you kick their butts?"
He frowned. "The buttocks are among the least sensitive places to hit someone."
I laughed. "It's a figure of speech."
"To kick butts. Interesting.

Allison Van Diepen

#16. Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

Mos Def

#17. Well, anyway, this'll be easier than knocking an elf out of a tree. Trust me.'
'How many elves have you knocked out of trees, Stubble?'
'Duraden's bones! Have ye never heard of a figure of speech?

Ian Livingstone

#18. Saying that it's all in your mind is a figure of speech. Don't let your mind play with your mental well being

Shellie Palmer

#19. Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

Raymond Moody

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

Theodore Parker

#21. If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

Dan Barker

#22. I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Pope Francis

#23. A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Salman Rushdie

#24. No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

Tom Wolfe

#25. And she always wants to read the same book. And it's, like, the crappiest board book. The Monster at the End of This Book?

Gabrielle Zevin

#26. Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they've forgotten how to hunt.

Maggie Young

#27. A fairy tale is one way to recount history. The

Michele Audin

#28. Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

Karen Salmansohn

#29. The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

Charlie Sheen

#30. At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it's to me it's extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that's still the craft of the DJ, I think.

A-Trak

#31. I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

Kathryn Stockett

#32. It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.

Barbara Mertz

#33. My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

Laura Benanti

#34. Next thing she knows she's lying flat on her back and three grizzled Mexicans are standing over her, trying

Ben Fountain

#35. Pray as if you are fully aware that the intricate timing and rotation of every celestial entity in the universe - including the coming and going of innumerable, precious life forms - does not rest in your tiny, mortal hands.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.

Noam Chomsky

#37. Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

Plutarch

#38. But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Wole Soyinka

#39. You were just another stranger in the room,
In a room full of bodies,
I was attracted to you,
I became your tiny dancer,
I became everything to you,
Little did you know,
That I'm just a dancer,
Not your fool.

Tanzy Sayadi

#40. I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.

Leo Buscaglia

#41. Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.

Mark McKinnon

#42. Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

Charles Stross