Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME… — Elisabeth Leamy Copy Share Image
“So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliche, to reach out… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
Maybe we need more dialogue in terms of our faith, in terms of those who are believers, or even nonbelievers, about that… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“But how can you be there for someone who doesn't need you? It's like trying to scale a wall without anyone on… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want… — William Arrowsmith Copy Share Image
Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Christians swim in metaphor like fish in the sea. Spiritual formation requires some measure of analogical or imaginative ability, since we are,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
“Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: the strings sang a hollow, lulling tune,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marathoning is a metaphor for life, so there are a lot of parallels you can draw. I tell people to follow your… — Joan Benoit Copy Share Image
“I’m going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I’ll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as… — Martin Jacques 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
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Our home, just like our garden, evolves. We experiment, try out different things and new colors until we feel content. Try to… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
“If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn’t a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind.… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“Nothing is all bad. There are very beautiful flowers in the desert amidst the spikes and thorns. Just don't let them take… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
What better metaphor for the subliminal state than capitalism? This whole notion that you're trying to do good and make things good… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core… — J-Live Copy Share Image
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
