Alan Garner Quotes

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

Alan Garner

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• The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • Done
  • College

• I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Alone

• We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• I'm so grateful this day has ended well.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• Concordia discors.

  

  Lucan

• I think I have been very conscious throughout my career. I can't go back and remember every line of every ad I have done, but I think in the most part I have been pretty conscious that we are not making a wrong claim. I am pretty confident with everything I do.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Pretty

• You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

  

  Billy Mays
  • Rip

• Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Bored

• When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Why

• I didn't want to overdo things with fashion. I wanted to mix and match the basics and classics to make it, you know, effortlessly fashionable.

  

  Jessica Jung
  • Fashion

• How can you know God if you don't know your big toe?

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • God

• I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Perfect

• Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mean
  • Accomplishment
  • Admiration

• The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• Today, men and women in uniform ... work so hard on our behalf to protect our freedom (and) our liberty. As they give their best for us, we want to be there for them, ... The good news for returning veterans is that the demand for skilled talent is very strong.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • World
  • God
  • Rest

• But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Trying
  • Justice

• My personal experience has only discovered two classes of people in China; Cynics who despise love and cowards who are afraid of it.

  

  Xu Zhimo
  • People
  • Experience
  • Despise

• Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Stories
  • Valuable
  • Comic

• The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Future
  • House
  • Most

• Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Humor

• I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Metaphor
  • Cowards
  • Scaredycats