There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“English: "To say that a car is not living is similar to saying that an enzyme is not living." Česky: „Říct, že… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“I saw a doctor. I went in case there were any remnants of the summer inside me—sticky, slender fish bones that needed… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“We all are internal energy of the Universe -- and it's not even a metaphor -- there would be no dynamics whatsoever… — Alex M. Vikoulov Copy Share Image
Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
