A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“Idols of the injury, dug in behind the least understood motor plan information. The vile abomination temporal lobes and The four loathsome… — Bill Ectric Copy Share Image
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“Augustus: It's a metaphor Hazel: You choose your behaviours based on their metaphorical resonances... Augustus: Oh yes, I'm a big believer in… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Like the subconscious, like love, like memory, like time itself, like every single one of us, the church is built on the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
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Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
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In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to… — Max Black Copy Share Image
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
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![“Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where…” quote by Dar Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fd2/dar-williams-3902_albums_mortal-city-was-really-influenced-by-geo_2547350.jpg)
