“There is so much want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality. — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch. — James Geary Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.” — Niklas Torneke Copy Share Image
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Keep to your schedule as closely as possible to stay focused on convincing yourself you have everything you desire now.” — Mina Faraway Copy Share Image
Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give… — John Green Copy Share Image
In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint Had bundled itself in… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though… — James Howell Copy Share Image
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a… — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
When I read Matt Ruff's book, that was my first encounter with learning about sundown towns, and I was like 'What?' Like,… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“I buckle my sword sheath to my waist and head for the trees. “If you’re coming, hurry up.” They glance at each… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Metaphor forms a crust beneath which the crevasse of each experience.” — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.” — Ade Santi Copy Share Image
I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there” — Spencer Johnson Copy Share Image
“A picture, after all, is just a symbol, a metaphor for something that cannot be translated.” — Shelan Rodger Copy Share Image
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning. — Rumi Copy Share Image
