Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
“The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure,… — Jane Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
“It’s like I have this demon inside of me, and I want it gone, but the idea of removing it via pill… — John Green Copy Share Image
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and… — Max Black Copy Share Image
“whatever you’re learning, see whether you can make a metaphor to help yourself understand the most difficult topic—you’ll be surprised at how… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“You're saying,' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world.… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Black Widow' is a metaphor for this innocent young girl who gets infected with life, traumas, experiences, and the balance of light… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
“Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
