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
To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. — Socrates Copy Share Image
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan 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
“The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have.” — Katherine Howe 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
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols. — Hemming 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
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
“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
I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man… — Robertson Davies 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
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
“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
“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
Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic… — Warren Buffett 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
“The Death of Allegory I am wondering what became of all those tall abstractions that used to pose, robed and statuesque, in… — Billy Collins 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
“one thing that I realized early on in thinking about this book, when I found, to my consternation, that I was writing… — Philip Pullman 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
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
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
