In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rather than with nothingness. Think… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“It is part of my existence to be the parasite of metaphors, so easily am I carried away by the first simile… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
I hate to use this as a metaphor, but making movies is kind of like going to war. It's not - but… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs,… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as… — William James Copy Share Image
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Of course we as Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“...a tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for… — Rorion Gracie Copy Share Image
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's… — Ruben Martinez Copy Share Image
I loved Catwoman's sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Shoes are money well spent and a good metaphor for life: everything else in life may be awful but a shoe will… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“the ability of a religious or business leader to inspire, motivate, generate interest, capture attention, depends critically on metaphor. if you actually… — John Grinder Copy Share Image
Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain… — Veronica Hollinger Copy Share Image
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be called invented.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“We all are internal energy of the Universe -- and it's not even a metaphor -- there would be no dynamics whatsoever… — Alex M. Vikoulov Copy Share Image
Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
