Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.” — Haruki Murakamirakami 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
I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“Landscape is metaphor / and only metaphor. But, oh, I have loved it so.” — William Bronk Copy Share Image
“It’s a metaphor for life. If sports don’t matter, then life doesn’t matter.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy… — James Horner Copy Share Image
“Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate.… — Janny Scott Copy Share Image
“Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your… — Amy Riekhof Copy Share Image
“Metaphor isn't just decorative language. If it were, it wouldn't scare us so much. . . . Colorful language threatens some people,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“You will never be missing to yourself and all you can do is delay, delay, delay and the delaying must be good… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe… — John Green 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
I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose. — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
