I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about…

Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most…

— Pat Pattison

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

— Charlie Kaufman

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

— Norman Borlaug

We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that the Soviet…

— Doris Lessing

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil,…

— Sam Harris

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

— Werner Herzog

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find…

— Norman Maclean

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

— Albert Pike

The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian…

— E. O. Wilson

Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary…

— Norman Maclean

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem…

— George Santayana

One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful…

— Gilbert Burnet

“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -…

— Karen Thompson Walker

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and…

— Margaret Heffernan