I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself.… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent?… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Why would a white caribou come down to Beaver River, where the woodland herd lives? Why would she leave the Arctic tundra,… — Kathleen Winter Copy Share Image
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
“Instead of The Closet, I’d like to propose a more humane metaphor. What if we talk about queer/trans people “coming out of… — Jacob Tobia Copy Share Image
I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a… — Jordan Wolfson Copy Share Image
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance… — Sherman Paul Copy Share Image
