The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world.… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
“You're saying,' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as… — William James Copy Share Image
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I favor a form of cosmopolitanism that takes nations very seriously, particularly because of the role of national law in sustaining or,… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race,… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
“She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At the risk of being simplistic, a railway metaphor comes to mind. John Wesley's marriage was a train wreck (Wesleyan historian, Henry… — Grant Gordon Copy Share Image
It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge,… — Chandler Burr Copy Share Image
“Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Dad was a writer down to his cells, and he loved metaphors. Everything was a metaphor. Your dirty laundry could be one.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of… — Daria Halprin Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is never condoning the terrible act; it is severing hatred's tumour bloodline for self-preservation. Only by refusing this amputation does the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes… — Alistair Gray Copy Share Image
“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The idea of Judaism as a flower, it a message for Jewish people, talking about the future. Many people associate Judaism with… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
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