The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don’t decide how much and how deeply to love… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it… — John Kao Copy Share Image
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
“...a tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“We all grow tired eventually; it happens to everyone. Even the sun, at the close of the year, is no longer a… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
God's will is clear about many things. We're to be holy. I like the metaphor that his Word is a lamp to… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
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