My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height! — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain… — Veronica Hollinger Copy Share Image
“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Just like backing out of the driveway… If the driveway was ten miles long, full of rocks and pits, with lethal radiation… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.” — Matt Simpson Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about. — Leslie What Copy Share Image
