In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
You see, I know change I see change I embody change All we do is change Yeah, I know change We are… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
“Boundaries aren’t walls. They’re bridges—back to your energy, your clarity, your well-being. And here’s the surprising twist: they’re also acts of kindness… — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
“I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she asks. Now, I’m curious. She… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives. Poke knew that,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality. — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by… — George Will Copy Share Image
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Most people, including yourself, apparently, think The Moldau is about a river. It is not. It is a metaphor. It is about… — Gerald Elias Copy Share Image
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it. — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
