Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Like the feeling of a carbonated beverage slipping down the throat, the bubbles rushing and popping as they make their descent, the… — Eda J. Vor Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words,… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds… — Stephen De Staebler Copy Share Image
In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The Dome is a metaphor that could mean anything - it could be nuclear fallout, terrorists - I've always been fascinated with… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You will never be missing to yourself and all you can do is delay, delay, delay and the delaying must be good… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Metaphor isn't just decorative language. If it were, it wouldn't scare us so much. . . . Colorful language threatens some people,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
“But irony deepens a person, helps them mature. It's the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat.… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“ you in love with Theo?” “Oh God! I'm completely, utterly, nutso in love with that man! But how do I let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation…… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something… — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me will full hands; How could I answer the child?…I do not… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There’s only one God—everything else is metaphor.’ Now, strip away all the metaphors, and what is the one single commandment common to… — Sean Chercover Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
At the core of an analytical edge is an ability to systematically distinguish between fundamentals and expectations. Fundamentals are a well thought… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“This wasn't a commodifiable realization, the kind of thing in college essays or inspirational books or the hardbound journals of gentle ladies.… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
![“The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get…” quote by Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c04/jared-diamond-2519_able_the-metaphor-is-so-obvious-easter-island_2058444.png)
![“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have…” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/079/friedrich-nietzsche-15_anthropomorphism_truth-is-a-mobile-army-of-metaphors-meto_2293268.jpg)
![“It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of…” quote by Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c2b/robert-hass-3548_black_it-turns-out-this-is-a-metaphor-out-of-c_979013.jpg)
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