The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Acoustics reverberate inside of Lucy Anna, bouncing off her walls and slamming against her bars. Harmonic prison.” — Kelby Losack Copy Share Image
I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs. — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual… — James Geary Copy Share Image
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else… — Mackenzie Herbert Copy Share Image
Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
There isn't a river or creek in the country - or there are very few - that doesn't have some small group… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The… — David Perkins Copy Share Image
“He was now beginning to wonder whether the jigsaw was the correct metaphor for relationships between me and women after all. It… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
