I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History’s Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes

By Mardy Grothe

The work of art in eating places are on a par with the foodstuff in museums.

America is a gigantic frosted cupcake in the midst of hundreds of thousands of ravenous people.

Critics are like pigs on the pastry cart.

Describing anything via touching on it to a different factor is the essence of metaphorical suggestion. it's one of many oldest actions of humankind—and the most remarkable while performed skillfully. all through background, many masters of metaphor have crafted observations which are so extraordinary they've got taken up an everlasting place of abode in our minds.

In I by no means Metaphor i did not Like, citation maven Dr. Mardy Grothe fixes his realization at the 3 superstars of figurative language—analogies, metaphors, and similes. the result's a rare compilation of approximately 2,000 feats of organization that may entertain, train, and sometimes motivate citation fanatics everywhere.

In this highbrow smorgasbord, the writer of Oxymoronica and Viva l. a. Repartee explains figurative language in a refreshingly down-to-earth means earlier than taking readers on a travel of history's maximum notice photos. In chapters on wit, love, intercourse, level and display, insults, politics, activities, and extra, you will discover quotations from Aristotle and Maya Angelou to George Washington and Oprah Winfrey.

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M A R L E N E D I E T R I C H , on Orson Welles the connection among the makeup guy and the movie actor is one among accomplices in crime. M A R L E N E D I E T R I C H Hollywood is the gold cap on a enamel that are meant to were pulled out years in the past. W. C . F I E L D S Filmmaking has now reached an identical level as intercourse— it’s all method and no feeling. P E N E LO P E G I L L I AT T Modesty is the artifice of actors, just like ardour in call-girls. J AC ok I E G L E A S O N Gleason’s aspect is that any demonstration of modesty from an actor is prone to be insincere. The suggestion has been complex through others, yet by no means so good. The cinema is fact twenty-four occasions a moment. J E A N - LU C G O DA R D this can be history’s most renowned description of cinema. The allusion is to the rate with which the person frames on a roll of 35-millimeter movie go through a film digital camera. In one other memorable metaphorical observa- tion on his craft, Godard acknowledged, “A movie is the area in an hour and a part. ” s t a g e & s c r e e n / 245 That’s the best way with those administrators, they’re constantly biting the hand that lays the golden egg. S A M U E L G O L D W Y N Technically, it is a combined metaphor; but if a metaphor is improperly mixed—a Sam Goldwyn specialty—it is usually known as a mangled metaphor. videos are only one other kind of advertising— we now have our manufacturing unit, known as a level; we make a product, we colour it, we name it, and we send it out in cans. C A RY G R A N T I felt like a raisin in a huge fruit salad. M A R okay H A M I L L , on performing in famous person Wars Lana Turner is to a night dress what Frank Lloyd Wright is to a pile of lumber. R E X H A R R I S O N a film with out song is a bit like an aeroplane with no gas. even if fantastically the activity is finished, we're nonetheless at the floor and in a global of truth. Your track has lifted us all up and despatched us hovering. every thing we won't say with phrases or express with motion you might have expressed for us. AU D R E Y H E P B U R N , to Henry Mancini This got here in a 1961 letter Hepburn wrote to Mancini, composer of the rating for Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The motion picture, tailored from a Truman Capote novella, stars Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a glamorous New Yorker who is operating as a high priced escort. Her aim is to satisfy and marry a prosperous older guy, yet she turns into drawn to a good-looking and suffering younger i n e v e r m e t a p h o r i d i d n ' t l i ke / 246 author (George Peppard), who strikes into her condo development (he, in flip, is being saved by way of a filthy rich older woman). Of the seven Oscar nomina- tions the movie got, Mancini took domestic , one for the sound song and one (with Johnny Mercer) for the tune “Moon River. ” The degree is actors’ state. you should get your passport stamped every now and then or they remove your citizenship. C H A R LTO N H E S TO N This was once Heston’s approach of claiming that movie stars had to get together- best friend seem at the stay theatrical level, even if degree roles are some distance much less profitable.

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