“Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
“Birds shouldn't be able to find tears They are the definition of freedom” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“But you have to be careful which metaphor you use, because it matters... The metaphors have implications. Do you know what I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are ,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet… — Vince Poscente Copy Share Image
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like,… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful… — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
