We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. — R. Buckminster Fuller 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 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
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. — Jack Schwartz 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
“But people need to cling to something,” Oshima says. “They have to. You’re doing the same, even though you don’t realize it.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.' His eyebrows furrowed in confusion. 'You're a few colors shy of a… — Blake Charlton Copy Share Image
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What's interesting to me is that in terms of people who I feel are getting what my game is about - and… — Jonathan Blow Copy Share Image
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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