“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to… — N.D. Wilson 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
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life.… — Marc Trestman Copy Share Image
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“She'd like to say something about the metaphors of space. She won't, but she'd like to. In many religions, the sun is… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell 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
I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera 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
“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
I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf 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
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing-for one of those bouts that go on and on, round… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“Depression has been likened to both a black cloud and a black dog. For someone like Kelsea, the black cloud is the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy… There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years… — Brent Smith Copy Share Image
I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Is that true," I asked, "that song?" "It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth." "And the end of… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone… — David Farrier Copy Share Image
“... we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip.… — Graham McNamee Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
![“Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy… There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.” quote by Brent Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2c9/brent-smith-48712_bluntness_well-bluntness-in-songwriting-s-a-lot-ch_3140984.png)
![“... we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've…” quote by Graham McNamee](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/32e/graham-mcnamee-38229_big-time_we-can-catch-fish-and-just-throw-them-ba_1299539.jpg)
