Bushel And Peck Quotes & Sayings

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form. — Ray Bradbury

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy. — Faith Ringgold

My work means that we have lived in different parts of the world and in each there has always been something to be afraid of. Gangsters, extremist political groups Right and Left tossing bombs into restaurants, hijacks, holdups, a city plumb on the line of an earthquake fault. We have long had a compact, with ourselves, with life; life is dangerous. We live with that; in the one certainty that fear is the real killer. — Nadine Gordimer

You are such a jerk! Get back here!"
"Jerk?" he repeated. " You're the one spying in windows. — Becca Fitzpatrick

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile. — Ned Vizzini

I love you to the moon and back." Gracie grinned. "Well, I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck, — Carolyn Brown

The truth is, the brain can be reprogrammed. You just have to be deliberate about it.2 — Charles Duhigg