“Angels and demons, heaven and hell, God, morality, law and language. It’s all metaphor. Scaffolding to handle the areas where base reality… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“I've always engaged with the heart as a metaphor: a desire, a thing to survive, to heal from or shoot for. Now… — Megan Stielstra Copy Share Image
There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In the time we spend reeling in confusion, grasping at straws trying to piece our egos together, we forget to acknowledge some… — Brianna Wiest Copy Share Image
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on… — Paolo Pellegrin Copy Share Image
“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
“Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that can lower… — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
“You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she asks. Now, I’m curious. She… — Katherine Owen Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing,… — Reginald John Campbell Copy Share Image
“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marathoning is a metaphor for life, so there are a lot of parallels you can draw. I tell people to follow your… — Joan Benoit Copy Share Image
It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Christians swim in metaphor like fish in the sea. Spiritual formation requires some measure of analogical or imaginative ability, since we are,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
“Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: the strings sang a hollow, lulling tune,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At the risk of being simplistic, a railway metaphor comes to mind. John Wesley's marriage was a train wreck (Wesleyan historian, Henry… — Grant Gordon Copy Share Image
I favor a form of cosmopolitanism that takes nations very seriously, particularly because of the role of national law in sustaining or,… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race,… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
![“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa9/haruki-murakami-21_accepting_the-sense-of-tragedy-according-to-aristo_23796.jpg)
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