“My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.” — Janice Lane Palko Copy Share Image
“She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad… — Patrick Major Dallas OR Copy Share Image
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as… — Seth Lloyd 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
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half… — Joseph Campbell 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
One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
