“...a small stream...sings a carefree song as it runs by your house. It is so nonthreatening that you can sit by it,… — Fatemeh Keshavarz Copy Share Image
There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact… — Claire Oshetsky Copy Share Image
“I’m going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I’ll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet… — Vince Poscente Copy Share Image
We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that… — Mike Watt Copy Share Image
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“But my brain winds and wends. Back and forth. Up and down. It feels like the county fair has inhabited my mind--… — Laura Munson Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want… — William Arrowsmith Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was… — Larry David Copy Share Image
A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
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