“Her eyes narrowed until they were a faint greenish glitter, like a forest pool far back in the shadow of trees.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
“Hi, Whenone speaks metaphorically, wills others recognize even if the metaphor has Meyer and chord as videos?” — Diana Kanecki Copy Share Image
“Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.” — Lee Argus Copy Share Image
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that… — Spencer Johnson Copy Share Image
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity. — George Takei Copy Share Image
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
“But now, when things had happened which were too appalling to think about, when his romantic love was a corpse and his… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
“But that’s precisely what you’re doing. Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it’s because you… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“There ́s a metaphor which I love: living like a drawing compass. As you know, one leg of the compass is static,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“He was a priest now, pagan, half-naked in the night, performing obscure rites of interment. Or he was the lead player in… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“It may seem odd to contemporary readers to think of the natural year as a metaphor by which we live. As individuals,… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.” — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for… — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
“The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed.” — e lockhart Copy Share Image
“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown” — Sandra M. Gilbert Copy Share Image
For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height! — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
