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Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.


Thomas Harrison


#fuse #images #metaphor #together #try

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.


Brad Holland


#art #cliches #expresses #political #propaganda

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.


Hubert H. Humphrey


#depends #important #life #name #only

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.


Daniel Akaka


#american cities #assistance #call #cannot #cities

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.


Barbara Amiel


#attention #barbarians #because #closer #course

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.


Halle Berry


#find #hard #hard thing #i #i am

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.


John Green


#center #chicago #city #during #economic

My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood.


Ethan Hawke


#clint #clint eastwood #eastwood #ever #except

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.


David Hockney


#excited #i #never #ordinary #ordinary things

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.


Laurence Housman


#become #by the time #capital #capital punishment #civilised