I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed:… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else… — Mackenzie Herbert Copy Share Image
What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured… — Osama Alomar 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
“[Francesca] 'You really are a few biscuits short of breakfast.' His eyebrows furrowed in confusion. 'You're a few colors shy of a… — Blake Charlton Copy Share Image
“I'm going to have to get an entirely new social scene if I want to avoid him,' she said, hunting for evidence… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
“Smoke and mirrors’ is a useful metaphor for the ways in which organised abuse has chided conceptualisation and understanding. The chapter provides… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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