“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I’m going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I’ll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“She understood now why so many members of her kind died so young. It was possible to squeeze an entire lifetime of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that.… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Surface metaphors are those that we use in everyday language, such as “This problem is just the tip of the iceberg,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that… — Spencer Johnson Copy Share Image
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity. — George Takei Copy Share Image
Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be? — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
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