Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
“Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“unless you're the lead dog the view never changes... mercy out does justice every time: always find your way back home/” — Bob Mitchley Copy Share Image
Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs,… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The wall rose high above us in the night, illimitable and fearsome. If we could just get across it, then we would… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant… — Quentin Tarantino 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
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in… — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
