I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“He can't hear you." Alex sighs. "You aren't the sharpest sheep in the barn, are you?" "That's not even the right metaphor,"… — Jessica Warman Copy Share Image
Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making sure… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Three postcards await our perusal, yea, three visions of a world. One: I see a theme park where there are lots of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Why would a white caribou come down to Beaver River, where the woodland herd lives? Why would she leave the Arctic tundra,… — Kathleen Winter Copy Share Image
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level… — Johan Hegg Copy Share Image
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“At last he was to feel that he had the town, as it were, in his pocket, and was ready for anything.… — Livy Copy Share Image
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say it new! Say it new!" It's… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
“Many Christians, including BioLogos, like to throw out the "you can't take the Bible literally" argument. They think it is the ultimate… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason,… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
![“[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my…” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ab8/anna-quindlen-467_children_after-my-mother-died-i-had-a-feeling-tha_2710339.jpg)
![“I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a great victory just as a person. I overstepped countless obstacles by creating that record. And the record's a metaphor for the personal steps I [took] throughout the past year.” quote by Justin Vernon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/252/justin-vernon-4380_creating_i-m-super-happy-to-see-the-record-doing_1563147.jpg)
