Reminds me of a similarly mixed metaphor in a short verse by the famous American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands

"Churn is the American way. Companies are born, rise, fall and die. Others come along to replace them. The country's remarkable capacity for innovation, for reinvention, is tied to its acceptance to failure. Or always has been. Without

New York Times November 14, 1994 Exploring the Links Between Depression, Writers and Suicide By WILLIAM GRIMES When the poet Anne Sexton learned of Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963, she was horrified. "That death was mine," she said.

Here's some quotes from a Hollywood great and the finest American President in your lifetime: ³We should always remember that ... he can go if he doesn¹t mind who gets the credit.² ³Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.² I won't

Cinematical Seven: Most Memorable Screenwriter Characters Posted Nov 9th 2007 8:02PM by Christopher Campbell Filed under: Classics, Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Scripts, Cinematical Seven, Lists In honor of the striking screenwriters, I wanted

So Long Johnny Hallyday The French have much to teach us. Too bad Americans don't listen. By   Long is a Hollywood screenwriter. Newsweek International A few years ago, I developed a script for an American TV sitcom. An aging French

Even missing the first half-hour, this was probably the best action flick I've seen all year. It was so excellent, for once other people in the audience clapped with me when it was over. I would actually see it again. Anybody else watch this?

I don't mind happy endings. I'm an American, too. What I'm bitching about is endings that don't match beginnings and middles. They're metaphors for American elections. Blair

Saw a recent incarnation of Godzilla on TV this afternoon which follows the standard motus operandi. And it got me to thinking: while Godzilla has been discussed as a metaphor for the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has there

You're not reading Raymond's post. His - valid - question ... that he ended up in a particular part of town. It would surprise me as well to hear anyone currently use the term metaphically. There appears to be an area of Los Angeles that