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
You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it. — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation. — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh 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 symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Because everything you perceive is a metaphor for something your brain is not equipped to fully understand. God is as real as… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
“whatever you’re learning, see whether you can make a metaphor to help yourself understand the most difficult topic—you’ll be surprised at how… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and… — Max Black Copy Share Image
Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs,… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to re-describe it, to change the terms. This isn't so much a balloon,… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known… The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Of course we as Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.… — Jeremy Corbyn 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
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter Copy Share Image
“Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.” — Janice Lane Palko Copy Share Image
“Its a metaphor, you see. You put the killing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill. A… — John Green Copy Share Image
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. — Walter Lippmann 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
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
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure,… — Jane Kaczmarek 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
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Black Widow' is a metaphor for this innocent young girl who gets infected with life, traumas, experiences, and the balance of light… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
