Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
“Butt holes are like a one-way street; they were made the way they were for a reason.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“But now, when things had happened which were too appalling to think about, when his romantic love was a corpse and his… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“It may seem odd to contemporary readers to think of the natural year as a metaphor by which we live. As individuals,… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“He was a priest now, pagan, half-naked in the night, performing obscure rites of interment. Or he was the lead player in… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“There ́s a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. — Max Black Copy Share Image
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
“Everything became a metaphor, a talisman, a sign that I was still actually connected to people—that I wasn’t so completely on my… — Susan Jane Gilman Copy Share Image
“I'm going to be frank, Max..." "Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.” — Alfred Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.” — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
“As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
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