It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
“That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“Oh, love is a journey with water and stars, with drowning air and storms of flour: love is a clash of lightnings,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Idols of the injury, dug in behind the least understood motor plan information. The vile abomination temporal lobes and The four loathsome… — Bill Ectric Copy Share Image
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our… — James Geary Copy Share Image
'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this… — Andrea O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a… — Shinji Moon Copy Share Image
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bull, was like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she walked to the consulate, carefully watching her sandals on the pavement, she glanced up and saw a… — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
“By throwing enough words together, some unusual and magical-sounding metaphor is bound to emerge according to the laws of combinatorics.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“By now, we're all familiar with the literary post-apocalyptic world's metaphors. The zombies are our anxieties. The vampires are our greed. Our… — Taffy Brodesser-Akner Copy Share Image
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top… — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
“Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
