“I am knee deep in sea water now, feeling the energy of the tidal waves as they roll inwards towards the shore.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was… — Larry David Copy Share Image
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Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“Like the subconscious, like love, like memory, like time itself, like every single one of us, the church is built on the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
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Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
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The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a… — James Balog Copy Share Image
I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
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Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
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What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the… — Peter Cochrane Copy Share Image
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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