I am an acquired taste, like a fine wine or a pate. If you are not sophisticated or worldly enough to appreciate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the… — Trevor Cole Copy Share Image
I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors… You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in… — John Divola Copy Share Image
Just when you think things can't get any worse, they do. I have learned that life is like hour glass sand. Sooner… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obstacles are a natural part of life, just as boulders are a natural part of the course of the river. The river… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In this book, much is metaphorical, not as it seems. It’s written for writing’s sake, as if I were to say, “Let… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Life is a Canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is… — RVM Copy Share Image
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If… — Polly Young-Eisendrath Copy Share Image
Life is like driving a car. You have to look left or right before you turn to your path, however you just… — Simphiwe Ntuli Copy Share Image
“For just this moment, we have the closest thing to an advantage we're likely to get. And if we don't use it,… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I woke up this morning with some music in my head. Songs that sing of being alive and find the way to… — SayWeCanFly Copy Share Image
The English idiom don't judge a book by its cover is a metaphorical phrase which means you shouldn't prejudge the worth or… — Wikipedia Copy Share Image
Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not… — Sandra Marie Schneiders Copy Share Image
“Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Metaphors were so bloody: people shot messengers,, flogged dead horses, cut the throats of their competitors. Perhaps that was life; perhaps that's… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“In our era, it is because poetry is no longer practiced that some people can rediscover it in argot, in which the… — Alice Becker-Ho Copy Share Image
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“There’s just one problem with feelings. They can be tremendously difficult to express in words. That’s the reason we so often resort… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life is like chapters in a book.. We can't erase what has been already written but we can write a better ending… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Linguists have noticed that across the history of language some words start out as obvious, conscious metaphors and then slowly embed themselves… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Think of the haters in your life as sandpaper; they'll scratch you up time and time again but in the end you're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is part of my existence to be the parasite of metaphors, so easily am I carried away by the first simile… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“War metaphors invade our everyday business language: we use headhunters to build up a sales force that will enable us to take… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“goal in this book, however, is not to train you in this research technique or describe it in detail; rather, it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Difficulty is a severe instructor. It's like a strict teacher teaching in the class. You got to tolerate her and do well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
If, in the very first pages, I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we… — James Geary Copy Share Image
