“To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“Get real. They’ll try to kill us no matter what. I can find out how to open the files from Mickey. You… — Dan Ahearn Copy Share Image
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
“I arrive now at the ineffable core of my story. And here begins my despair as a writer. All language is a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the… — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“...a small stream...sings a carefree song as it runs by your house. It is so nonthreatening that you can sit by it,… — Fatemeh Keshavarz Copy Share Image
The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
“I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no… — Norman Buckley Copy Share Image
You see, I know change I see change I embody change All we do is change Yeah, I know change We are… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the… — Benjamin R. Smith 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
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“But my brain winds and wends. Back and forth. Up and down. It feels like the county fair has inhabited my mind--… — Laura Munson Copy Share Image
The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment.… — John Didcott Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
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