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
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
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
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
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife… — Jane Fonda 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
I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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“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 metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land… — Bruce-Novoa Copy Share Image
I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the… — Peter Cochrane Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
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'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this… — Andrea O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our… — James Geary Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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