The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“It's not only the demons who have the power to break you. It's the small, unexpected kindness, the flame that throws the… — Erica O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory… — Kode9 Copy Share Image
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it… — Sting Copy Share Image
The idea of Judaism as a flower, it a message for Jewish people, talking about the future. Many people associate Judaism with… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary Copy Share Image
“But how can you be there for someone who doesn't need you? It's like trying to scale a wall without anyone on… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“Some words are spoken by the eyes. And you must understand the language of the eyes.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs. — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to… — Max Black Copy Share Image
Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful… — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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