I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography.… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
“Aristotle said29 that "the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot… — Robert Bosnak Copy Share Image
“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It… — Gen Urobuchi Copy Share Image
I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a blue shift.… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“He turned his steel eyes at me. They hurt me, paralysed me, like the advancing lights of a car. I saw that… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book.… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
“[...] but they and I had fallen apart, as one could in England and only there, into separate worlds, little spinning planets… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! … The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm a little more mature, and a little more aware of the things that I might say. But um, it aint going… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that… — Mike Watt Copy Share Image
I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban 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
“METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by… — George Will Copy Share Image
Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just… — Ed Gass-Donnelly Copy Share Image
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need,… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
“In this book, much is metaphorical, not as it seems. It’s written for writing’s sake, as if I were to say, “Let… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
![“When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land…” quote by Melissa Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a22/melissa-rosenberg-10715_book_when-i-was-developing-the-tv-series-dare_1007491.jpg)
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