“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
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
“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
We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and… — Neill Blomkamp 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
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of… — Laurie Green Westlake Copy Share Image
What makes Jessica Jones series so unique is that it really is an allegory for many different types of abuse, whether it… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life.… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“A Man’s life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the Mystery of his life—a life… — John Keats Copy Share Image
If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
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“The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When they see beyond the sky, When they know beyond the mind, When they hear the song of the Burning Light; Take… — Rachel Starr Thomson Copy Share Image
Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something. No, the Muppets are not communist. And… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“She reached down and picked a crab out of a bucket. As it came up it turned out that three more were… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
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