I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.” — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier 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
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for… — Rorion Gracie Copy Share Image
Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and… — Darren Walker Copy Share Image
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“Some desires do not arrive violently. They settle quietly into the body until they begin speaking with your own voice.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
Clad in metaphor, the world becomes newborn to our senses, like a phoenix. It is the most effective fresh presentation of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years… — Brent Smith Copy Share Image
“Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
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