The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.” — M. Thomas Gammarino Copy Share Image
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it. — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“The two of them talked in medical babble while I sat there feeling as useful as a gorilla at a spelling bee.” — Renae Kaye Copy Share Image
“You won’t escape me. In a submarine, even escape sinks.” — Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman’s Adult Story” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the… — Florence King Copy Share Image
A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one… — Mason Jennings Copy Share Image
Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book,… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors… — Nick Laird 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
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“In the time we spend reeling in confusion, grasping at straws trying to piece our egos together, we forget to acknowledge some… — Brianna Wiest Copy Share Image
There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and… — Andy Summers 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
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition. — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music. — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
“... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
