...Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night… — David Small Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare queried 'if music be the food of love, play on'; Well, I say laughter is life's champagne cocktail and humourlessness its… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“But what really matters is what's under the hood, and without continued attention to routine maintenance and repairs, it isn't long before… — William Cope Moyers Copy Share Image
Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no… — Norman Buckley Copy Share Image
You see, I know change I see change I embody change All we do is change Yeah, I know change We are… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries… — John Williams Copy Share Image
When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
“But people need to cling to something,” Oshima says. “They have to. You’re doing the same, even though you don’t realize it.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is… — John Searle Copy Share Image
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
“Like a tree or a river, a story can have many branches or tributaries—but its power comes from the root, the origin… — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded… — John Updike Copy Share Image
...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“The writer sensitive to language finds his own metaphors, not simply because he has been taught to avoid clichés but because he… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I like to make people dream and think and imagine and learn and study. Nowadays, music is so literal - it's telling… — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
In essence, we string theorists have been trying to work out the score of the universe, the harmonies of the universe, the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors,… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image