You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
“In this world, you are very much like a water hose in the garden. Love flows through you, just as water runs… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns. — James Geary Copy Share Image
It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in… — John Divola Copy Share Image
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition. — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Marathoning is a metaphor for life, so there are a lot of parallels you can draw. I tell people to follow your… — Joan Benoit Copy Share Image
"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
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