God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I think martial arts, when it's practiced with a complete idea, is a metaphor for life. — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of… — Daria Halprin Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Dad was a writer down to his cells, and he loved metaphors. Everything was a metaphor. Your dirty laundry could be one.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I'm not the 'rappity-rapper' type dude. All my music is really true. I can't just rap about nothing, just metaphors and putting… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The future, in fiction, is a metaphor. A metaphor for what? If I could have said it non-metaphorically, I would not have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! … The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“[...] but they and I had fallen apart, as one could in England and only there, into separate worlds, little spinning planets… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book.… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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