“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“For what is the human body, with its branching veins and winding bowels and many-chambered heart, if not a Labyrinth?” — Seamus Sullivan Copy Share Image
Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor. — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Find Cupid everywhere in Rome because we'd clipped one of his wings and he was forced to fly in circles.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. — James Geary Copy Share Image
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed:… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Sorry, poppet,” I tell Aoife. “I was miles away.” “No, you weren’t. You’re right here.” “I was miles away metaphorically.” “What’s meta … frickilly?”… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It would not be fair to say that the fire stole my faith, since in truth it has been slipping away from… — Elissa Janine Hoole Copy Share Image
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I remember periods where we didn't even have beats in our club sets, but people kept dancing. The beat wasn't even necessary,… — Thomas Koner Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns. — James Geary Copy Share Image
“Extended metaphor is like a carton of milk without an expiration date.” — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
“Creativity comes with being human, it is the power to think new, to imagine, to see a metaphor…All you need is an… — Jean Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um . . . sometimes a duck is just a duck!"--Mr. Tushman” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
“It's not only the demons who have the power to break you. It's the small, unexpected kindness, the flame that throws the… — Erica O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
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