I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“Values without action are like blueprints left rolled up in a dusty attic. This chapter is where you climb into your metaphorical… — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers." Let's be real. Fact is, we… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Our wings were clipped, our restrictions were made, our boundaries were tested but now we are free, aren’t we? We look above… — Jennifer Gilmour Copy Share Image
“Peeling an Orange Between you and a bowl of oranges I lie nude Reading The World’s Illusion through my tears. You reach… — Virginia Adair Copy Share Image
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I feel like I've always had two selves - the part of me that makes films and the part of me that's… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
I'm bored with DJs. Anybody that puts the title DJ in front of their name immediately turns me off. I prefer the… — Momus Copy Share Image
“I saw a doctor. I went in case there were any remnants of the summer inside me—sticky, slender fish bones that needed… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to… — Ben Drew Copy Share Image
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and… — Rick DeMarinis Copy Share Image
“Another example of how a metaphor can create new meaning for us came about by accident. An Iranian student, shortly after his… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“The regularity of the clock was a metaphor for the accuracy of the universe. For the accuracy of God's creative achievement. So… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“In this world, you are very much like a water hose in the garden. Love flows through you, just as water runs… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it.… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
