We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.” — M. Thomas Gammarino Copy Share Image
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?" Allie considered this. "Meaning?" "Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
“They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I was working with Toby Gad, who spent a lot of time in India. There's a sitar [in "Body Shop"] and the… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
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