In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell,… — Bill Moyers 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
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them… — David Katz Copy Share Image
“I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion.… — D.L. Hess Copy Share Image
I think there are shades of political songs; some are more subtle and can be more effective for being subtle, for being… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
“Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“If the invariable human problem with the sacred is its intangibility, its elusiveness, here all complaints are surely laid to rest. For… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Fire is a symbol for so much. It's a symbol for change. It's a symbol for destruction. Out of the ashes of… — Sam Roberts Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that.… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She understood now why so many members of her kind died so young. It was possible to squeeze an entire lifetime of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“There ́s a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“He was a priest now, pagan, half-naked in the night, performing obscure rites of interment. Or he was the lead player in… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“It may seem odd to contemporary readers to think of the natural year as a metaphor by which we live. As individuals,… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“But that’s precisely what you’re doing. Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it’s because you… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent?… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Slowly, I began to relearn something I’d once grasped but had lost sight of: that emotion—that central element of fiction—derives not from… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
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