"The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor."

-- Aristotle

#Style Quotes #Metaphor Quotes #Command Quotes

“Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.”
“The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.”
“I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.”

Source : "Louise Rennison's greatest quotes ever" by Emily Drabble, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2016.
“My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.”

Source : "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.
“Thought is borne of failure.”
“Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.”
“Basement?' Hamish cried, then glanced at his brother. 'You hear this fellow? He thinks we can just go on down to the furnace and start tinkering?' Angus laughed. 'He probably wouldn't care at all if the whole place went boom, he wouldn't.' At this the guard bristled and stood up even straighter. 'Now see here---' 'No, you see, my good man. Out here, see, we've got snow. So in there, I'd bet, you've got heat. And where there's heat there's gas; and where there's gas there's...' Angus trailed off while his brother said, 'boom.”
“I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot of the times people will try too hard to write everything themselves and therefor miss out on great songs that way.”

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