That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that… — Spencer Johnson Copy Share Image
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away… — Donna Brazile 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
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Like a tree or a river, a story can have many branches or tributaries—but its power comes from the root, the origin… — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
“Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
