“Keep to your schedule as closely as possible to stay focused on convincing yourself you have everything you desire now.” — Mina Faraway Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
“Birds shouldn't be able to find tears They are the definition of freedom” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. — Ben Casnocha 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
Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the… — Immortal Technique 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
“As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
“And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be called invented.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I hate to use this as a metaphor, but making movies is kind of like going to war. It's not - but… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image