We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. — J. T. Walsh Copy Share Image
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
“And do you want to marry him?" "Maybe. I don't know." "That kind of indifference usually means no." "It's not indifference. I… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation....… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Peeling an Orange Between you and a bowl of oranges I lie nude Reading The World’s Illusion through my tears. You reach… — Virginia Adair Copy Share Image
I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say it new! Say it new!" It's… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic:… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“By now, we're all familiar with the literary post-apocalyptic world's metaphors. The zombies are our anxieties. The vampires are our greed. Our… — Taffy Brodesser-Akner Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare queried 'if music be the food of love, play on'; Well, I say laughter is life's champagne cocktail and humourlessness its… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside… — Byron Katie 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
