“a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth” — Leah Wilson 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
“No story can be devised by the wit of man which cannot be interpreted allegorically by the wit of some other man.” — C.S. Lewis 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
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
“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that… — 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
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Long before there was ever a King James Version of our Bible, there was a gospel truth...and long before doctrines and denominations,… — Chandel L. White Copy Share Image
“Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“A Mixed-breed Apple" A little mixed-breed apple, half red, half yellow, tells this story. A lover and beloved get separated. Their being… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“However, I have also argued for allegory’s positive effects. It is a process that typically takes control away from the author of… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“I mourned, hands clenched, before that mound. For the piercing cold of grief had caught Me in the doleful dread and bound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
If you sit in on a film class with students, their big complaint is "That's not like real life." They don't realize… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I… — Friedrich Schiller 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
When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of… — Gael Garcia Bernal 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
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many… — Erwin Schrodinger 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
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
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a… — John Keats 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
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
“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
I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and… — George A. Romero 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
“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
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
“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
“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
