Figurative Of Speech Quotes & Sayings

Better to be screwed physically than financially. — Charlaine Harris

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. — Rosalind Russell

I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him (what would seem so necessary for the first Christian theologian) that of lucidity and orderly exposition. — C.S. Lewis

When you live in LA and work in the movies, you experience the collapse of some of that fantasy. You know that the eyes glow like that because of lights placed at a specific angle, and you see the actresses up close and, yes, they are beautiful, but they are human size and imperfect like the rest of us. — Nina LaCour

Sluts don't have a choice, darling. And you've forfeited yours. — Sara Craven

There's almost always a plausible rationale - and a good, if misguided, intention - behind every usability flaw. Another — Steve Krug

Elegancy, is a good Meen and Address given to Matter, be it by proper or figurative Speech: Where the Words are apt, and allusions very natural, Certainly it has a moving Grace: But it is too artificial for Simplicity, and oftentimes for Truth. The Danger is, lest it delude the Weak, who in such Cases may mistake the Handmaid for the Mistress, if not Error for Truth. — Various

Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts! — Courtney Milan

every day, no matter how flawed. And we must have faith in God, and in the Universe, and in a better tomorrow, even if that faith is not always deserved. — Mark T. Sullivan

The dark fever I'd caught that first night I'd set foot in Dublin had turned into a fever of a different kind: a bloodfever - as in I wanted blood, spilled for my sister. — Karen Marie Moning

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. — Aristophanes

I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page. — Kevin Brockmeier

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps ... — Amedeo Modigliani

When our small research group moved from MIT to Dartmouth College years ago, one of the Dartmouth engineering professors watched us in seminars for a while, and then dropped by our offices. "You people are different," he said. "You ask different kinds of questions. You see things I don't see. Somehow you come at the world in a different way. How? Why? — Donella H. Meadows

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

restrictions create frustrations! — Eric Jerome Dickey

The doctrine of Original Sin is the most democratizing idea in all of human history. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield