"Metaphor is embodied in language."

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Dennis Potter

#Language Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?”

Source : "Ovechkin fashions himself a designer" by Paul Hunter, The Toronto Star, p. S02, June 12, 2008.
“I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.”

Source : "Andrew Wylie: 'I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2010.
“I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,”
“Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.”
“I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”
“The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.”
“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.”
“If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence.”

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