If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart. — Jesse Stuart Copy Share Image
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music. — Aldous Harding 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
“There’s so much earth everywhere. It’s like all the people migrated to these pockets of lights and noise, and they left all… — Akemi Dawn Bowman Copy Share Image
“Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
“One of the challenges with pain - physical or psychic - is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It… — John Green Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy:… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even… — Derrick Jensen 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
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“A good metaphor is worth a thousand pictures.” — Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey Copy Share Image
