Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“It's all about motive. Climbing up and climbing out look the same on the outside.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed.” — e lockhart Copy Share Image
Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for… — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown” — Sandra M. Gilbert Copy Share Image
For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height! — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
“At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want… — William Arrowsmith Copy Share Image
You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“But how can you be there for someone who doesn't need you? It's like trying to scale a wall without anyone on… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
Maybe we need more dialogue in terms of our faith, in terms of those who are believers, or even nonbelievers, about that… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them… — David Katz Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment.… — John Didcott Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
“But that was the thing about metaphors, those tricky comparisons of dissimilar things. They weren't always tricky. Or dissimilar.” — Kim Culbertson Copy Share Image
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. — Max Black Copy Share Image
“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And I too am not myself, hoping for refuge in a metaphor that will contain it all.” — Helon Habila Copy Share Image
“you don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it” — Robert Stetson Shaw Copy Share Image
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“We all grow tired eventually; it happens to everyone. Even the sun, at the close of the year, is no longer a… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
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