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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
“I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“When I've thought about him dying - which admittedly isn't that much - I always thought of it like you said, that… — John Green Copy Share Image
From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the… — Timur Bekmambetov Copy Share Image
As a child I always loved traditional Korean masked dances. There is something magical about a mask because we all wear or… — Dana Tai Soon Burgess Copy Share Image
“If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you look at the damage that many of the policies that Donald Trump has proposed can do to our citizens of… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I do like Canadian poetry. Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Carmine Starnino, and Don McKay are a few of the Canadian poets whose… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
“Y That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? Me with… — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The future, in fiction, is a metaphor. A metaphor for what? If I could have said it non-metaphorically, I would not have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book.… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! … The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“[...] but they and I had fallen apart, as one could in England and only there, into separate worlds, little spinning planets… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“He turned his steel eyes at me. They hurt me, paralysed me, like the advancing lights of a car. I saw that… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he… — Paul Sabatier Copy Share Image
I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you’re imagining a… — John Green Copy Share Image
To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
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![“From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There's misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear…” quote by Timur Bekmambetov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd1/timur-bekmambetov-28755_aliens_from-the-beginning-of-the-film-the-darke_1044728.jpg)
![“"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've used rivers to cleanse ourselves. And, for me, the lyrics "something in the river," I think is - well, the river is a metaphor for where I was at the time.” quote by Ladyhawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ea/ladyhawke-16375_cleansing_the-river-song-is-also-yes-very-metaphor_2561709.jpg)
![“When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land…” quote by Melissa Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a22/melissa-rosenberg-10715_book_when-i-was-developing-the-tv-series-dare_1007491.jpg)
![“[...] but they and I had fallen apart, as one could in England and only there, into separate worlds, little spinning planets of personal relationship; there is probably a perfect metaphor for the process to be found in physics, from the way in which, I dimly apprehend, particles of energy group…” quote by Evelyn Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c3/evelyn-waugh-850_charles-ryder_but-they-and-i-had-fallen-apart-as-one-c_3005795.jpg)
