The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne… — Tina Fey 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
“We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level… — Johan Hegg Copy Share Image
'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this… — Andrea O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana. — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is. — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
“GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
