“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way… — Agustin Gomez-Arcos Copy Share Image
The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
Some burns," Clary said. "Nothing that matters" "Everything that happens to you matters to me." "Well that certainly explains why you haven't… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I set the coffee aside and got a cup of water instead. I could never see why people drank that stuff. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I do like Canadian poetry. Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Carmine Starnino, and Don McKay are a few of the Canadian poets whose… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our… — James Geary Copy Share Image
“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“The ocean turned feral. No longer a cradle, it grew claws and fangs.” — Deni Ar Dente Copy Share Image
“Find Cupid everywhere in Rome because we'd clipped one of his wings and he was forced to fly in circles.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“I'm going to be frank, Max..." "Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.” — Alfred Alcorn Copy Share Image
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors,… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
