“But people need to cling to something. hey have to. You're doing the same, even though you don't realize it. It's like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic:… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor… — Swoosie Kurtz Copy Share Image
We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was… — Sabrina Ward Harrison Copy Share Image
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to… — Max Black Copy Share Image
metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not… — Sandra Marie Schneiders Copy Share Image
“Farfetching. What one is after when farfetching might be described as the intuitive perception of a moral entirety; and thus it tends… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of… — James St. James Copy Share Image
What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“You could build a world out of need or you could hold everything black and see. You give back the lack. You… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
“This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting in my… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
“Pharaoh is clearly a metaphor. He embodies and represents raw, absolute, worldly power. He is, like Pilate after him, a stand-in for… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
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