She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it. — Eileen Atkins Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The… — Chris Terrio Copy Share Image
“Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom…a kingdom waiting for one young knight… — Chuck Black Copy Share Image
A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends...well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the… — Brea Nicole Bond Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The artist glanced at the inflexible image of king, commander, dame, and allegory, that stood around, on the best of which might… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What does Éloa mean?” He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name of an angel.” Penelope tilted her head, thinking.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“She seemed to exist in a kind of allegory, and having these shapes about her, claimed my interest so strongly, that (as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Adelaide remembered the first storm Justinius had seen her through. She had seen many storms since then, some milder than others, some… — Valerie Howard Copy Share Image
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge,… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the… — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
“The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have.” — Katherine Howe Copy Share Image
“Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“My God is a God of romance. He alludes greatly to this in the allegory of Him and the church as a… — Carol Wambui Ngabura Copy Share Image
“For those who seek allegory, it must be maddening. (It must be allegory! Of course Frodo is Christ! - or is Gollum… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
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