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

Name: I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes
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ISBN: 9780061358135

ISBN-10: 0061358134

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Edition: 2008

Authors: Mardy Grothe

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The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. Describing something by relating it to another thing is the essence of metaphorical thought. It is one of the oldest activities of humankind-and one of the most impressive when done skillfully. Throughout history, many masters of metaphor have crafted observations that are so spectacular they have taken up a permanent residence in our minds. In I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like, quotation maven Dr. Mardy Grothe fixes his attention on the three superstars of figurative language-analogies, metaphors, and…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/5/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.79" wide x 7.28" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Dr. Mardy Grothe is a psychologist, management consultant, and public speaker. He is the author of five previous word-and-language books: I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like , Viva la Repartee , Oxymoronica , Ifferisms , and Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You . A lifelong quotation collector, Dr. Mardy--as he is known to his fans around the globe--is routinely described as a "quotation maven" and is well on his way to becoming America's most popular quotation anthologist. He lives with his wife, Katherine Robinson, in North Carolina.



Introduction



An Ice-Axe for the Frozen Sea Within (Life-Altering Metaphors)



Reserved Seats at a Banquet of Consequences (The Human Condition)



Humor Is the Shock Absorber of Life (Wit & Humor)



The Lights May Be on, but Nobody's Home (Insults & Criticism)



Enclosing Wild Ideas Within a Wall of Words (Definitive Metaphors)



Life Is the Art of Drawing Without an Eraser (Life)



A Relationship Is Like a Shark (Relationships)



Love Is an Exploding Cigar We Willingly Smoke (Love)



Marriage Is a Souvenir of Love (Marriage, Home & Family Life)



Sex Is an Emotion in Motion (Sex)



Old & Young, We Are All on Our Last Cruise (Ages & Stages of Life)



An Actor Is a God in Captivity (Stage & Screen)



Washington, D.C., Is to Lying What Wisconsin Is to Cheese (Politics)



Sports Is the Toy Department of Life (Sports)



Writing Is the Manual Labor of the Mind (The Literary Life)


Acknowledgments


Index