“It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like,… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections. — Robin Morgan 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
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
...Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he… — Paul Sabatier Copy Share Image
I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.” — Ade Santi 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
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds… — Stephen De Staebler Copy Share Image
“Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...” — wallace stevens 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
“Each of us carries his Mexico and his United States within him, a dark and bloody frontier we dare to cross only… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
