The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night… — David Small Copy Share Image
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
