I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs. — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in… — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Like the subconscious, like love, like memory, like time itself, like every single one of us, the church is built on the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we… — David Simon Copy Share Image
There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“Augustus: It's a metaphor Hazel: You choose your behaviours based on their metaphorical resonances... Augustus: Oh yes, I'm a big believer in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Acoustics reverberate inside of Lucy Anna, bouncing off her walls and slamming against her bars. Harmonic prison.” — Kelby Losack Copy Share Image
I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
“The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward. — Angela Ruggiero Copy Share Image
“Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.” — Matt Simpson Copy Share Image
“Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...” — wallace stevens Copy Share Image
“The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language...” — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.” — Dorothy Gambrell Copy Share Image
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
