I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“Many Christians, including BioLogos, like to throw out the "you can't take the Bible literally" argument. They think it is the ultimate… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
There isn't a river or creek in the country - or there are very few - that doesn't have some small group… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
“She was used to living her life from a distance, watching herself from the back row as she mouthed someone else’s lines… — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
“He thought the suit was changing his life. What it really wanted was his obedience.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Is that true," I asked, "that song?" "It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth." "And the end of… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Idols of the injury, dug in behind the least understood motor plan information. The vile abomination temporal lobes and The four loathsome… — Bill Ectric Copy Share Image
Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates 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
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
