The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Beth's not on that train?" "Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor… — J.R. Ward 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
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. — J. T. Walsh Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Some words are spoken by the eyes. And you must understand the language of the eyes.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The morning Mom tells me my skirt is too short, I find the lawn full of dead fledglings.” — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“At its simplest, the parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions… — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
God's will is clear about many things. We're to be holy. I like the metaphor that his Word is a lamp to… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“Grace had always imagined that she would feel some sense of warning, at least for a millisecond before her life was transformed.… — Susan Kraus Copy Share Image
“[The unconscious has] been on its own for a long time. Of course it has no access to the world except through… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life. The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Writing is about making choices, Miss Dovecott says. One word or phrase or title over another. So many options that they're almost… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
![“[The unconscious has] been on its own for a long time. Of course it has no access to the world except through your own sensorium. Otherwise it would just labor in the dark. Like your liver. For historical reasons it's loath to speak to you. It prefers drama, metaphor, pictures. But it understands…” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/beb/cormac-mccarthy-181_dark_the-unconscious-has-been-on-its-own-for_2193763.jpg)
