I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It… — Donald Antrim Copy Share Image
It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
“The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the… — Tabitha King Copy Share Image
“[The unconscious has] been on its own for a long time. Of course it has no access to the world except through… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not… — Sandra Marie Schneiders Copy Share Image
Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“A message denotes a specific, concrete statement about the world. But the forms of our media, including the symbols through which they… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida 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
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to… — Northrop Frye 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
My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
“It would not be fair to say that the fire stole my faith, since in truth it has been slipping away from… — Elissa Janine Hoole Copy Share Image
