“A good metaphor is worth a thousand pictures.” — Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey Copy Share Image
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual… — Frank Fools Crow Copy Share Image
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.” — Matt Simpson Copy Share Image
“Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...” — wallace stevens Copy Share Image
“The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language...” — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for… — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was… — Larry David Copy Share Image
I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“I am knee deep in sea water now, feeling the energy of the tidal waves as they roll inwards towards the shore.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint Had bundled itself in… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment.… — John Didcott Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them… — David Katz Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion.… — D.L. Hess Copy Share Image
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
