“Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography.… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“The morning Mom tells me my skirt is too short, I find the lawn full of dead fledglings.” — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals.… — Jake Halpern Copy Share Image
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future. — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in… — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning. — Rumi Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The Dome is a metaphor that could mean anything - it could be nuclear fallout, terrorists - I've always been fascinated with… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
