I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
All the interesting films are now being made by their subsidiaries for very low budgets. But the studios are not making money.… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate.… — Janny Scott Copy Share Image
Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed.” — e lockhart 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
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat.… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
