The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Creativity comes with being human, it is the power to think new, to imagine, to see a metaphor…All you need is an… — Jean Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um . . . sometimes a duck is just a duck!"--Mr. Tushman” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Find Cupid everywhere in Rome because we'd clipped one of his wings and he was forced to fly in circles.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are ,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet… — Vince Poscente Copy Share Image
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He wouldn't tell me that I always have two options— You can choose how you feel or you you can let your… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
There is no metaphor for death. All comparisons are odious, but I'll do one anyway. We all have these moments of harsh… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
“Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
