I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“... we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip.… — Graham McNamee Copy Share Image
Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life. The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
