“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
She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.” — Janice Lane Palko 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
“Don’t be afraid of a little metaphor; it won’t bite you, but you should always make sure you know how to cash… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
In terms of viewing the world in a certain way, when you're talking about monsters and talking about the metaphor that you're… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God." "It is like that for me… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“This book provides an approach to building global love for brands by positioning emotional benefit within engaging communication. The Deep Metaphor framework… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we… — James Geary Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“There’s only one God—everything else is metaphor.’ Now, strip away all the metaphors, and what is the one single commandment common to… — Sean Chercover Copy Share Image
Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac 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
In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No… — Suzanne Weyn Copy Share Image
“Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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