“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.” — Dorothy Gambrell Copy Share Image
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
“The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward. — Angela Ruggiero Copy Share Image
I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in… — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“The metaphor is perhaps the most fruitful power of man. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land… — Bruce-Novoa Copy Share Image
I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
I think there are shades of political songs; some are more subtle and can be more effective for being subtle, for being… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
