“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
“Creativity comes with being human, it is the power to think new, to imagine, to see a metaphor…All you need is an… — Jean Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um . . . sometimes a duck is just a duck!"--Mr. Tushman” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
“The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The… — David Perkins Copy Share Image
“He wouldn't tell me that I always have two options— You can choose how you feel or you you can let your… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“He was now beginning to wonder whether the jigsaw was the correct metaphor for relationships between me and women after all. It… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There is no metaphor for death. All comparisons are odious, but I'll do one anyway. We all have these moments of harsh… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
When raindrops hit the tin roof it's crazy. That's a metaphor, did I lose you baby? — Drake Copy Share Image
“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go. — Jennifer Grey Copy Share Image
“For what is the human body, with its branching veins and winding bowels and many-chambered heart, if not a Labyrinth?” — Seamus Sullivan Copy Share Image
Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor. — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about. — Leslie What Copy Share Image
“I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“You won’t escape me. In a submarine, even escape sinks.” — Angelika Regossi, Love in Communism: A Young Woman’s Adult Story” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“The two of them talked in medical babble while I sat there feeling as useful as a gorilla at a spelling bee.” — Renae Kaye Copy Share Image
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
