“Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for… — John Green Copy Share Image
Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just… — Ed Gass-Donnelly Copy Share Image
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“But what really matters is what's under the hood, and without continued attention to routine maintenance and repairs, it isn't long before… — William Cope Moyers Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“There ́s a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
