“Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“It's all about motive. Climbing up and climbing out look the same on the outside.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover… — Norman Mailer 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
“wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment,its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i… — mohlalefi j motsima Copy Share Image
Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us - without any form or name that we can imagine - that… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
“We say, ‘I see what you mean,’ it’s the metaphor for clarity. But sometimes I wish people could see the pictures in… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do.… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
“...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
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be? — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it. — Rachel Cohn 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
“Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“The suit gave him youth, strength, and hunger. It never promised he would remain himself.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain” — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future. — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
