I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It’s comforting to me,” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.” — Keith Hollihan Copy Share Image
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole,… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
“I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“Far from being the rock or island in the Simon and Garfunkel song, it turns out that the best metaphor to describe… — Rick Smith Copy Share Image
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things that aren’t your fault. Or mine, either. Not the fault of prophecies, or curses, or DNA,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a child I always loved traditional Korean masked dances. There is something magical about a mask because we all wear or… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the… — Timur Bekmambetov Copy Share Image
“When I've thought about him dying - which admittedly isn't that much - I always thought of it like you said, that… — John Green Copy Share Image
But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Why did I do it?" I finally asked him. "Because you couldn't stand it, because you were choking, that's why. Perfectly understandable."… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. — Peter Hammill Copy Share Image
“Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go. — Jennifer Grey Copy Share Image
When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby? — Drake Copy Share Image
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about. — Leslie What Copy Share Image
“I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
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