“I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I’m going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I’ll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in… — Robert Kenner Copy Share Image
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money.… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes… — Alistair Gray Copy Share Image
“But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge,… — Chandler Burr Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is never condoning the terrible act; it is severing hatred's tumour bloodline for self-preservation. Only by refusing this amputation does the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of… — Daria Halprin Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Dad was a writer down to his cells, and he loved metaphors. Everything was a metaphor. Your dirty laundry could be one.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Love is like a pane of glass.. It can take harsh beatings from the weather around it... But if it gets hit… — Tyler Hoyt Copy Share Image
Similes, metaphors and we pop pills. Sick flow inundated with the doc bills. Work hard, now we know how to top bills;… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
