“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.” — David Joseph Cribbin 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
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
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
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
I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
“Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
I loved Catwoman's sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Shoes are money well spent and a good metaphor for life: everything else in life may be awful but a shoe will… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's… — Ruben Martinez Copy Share Image
Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level… — Johan Hegg Copy Share Image
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
