I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“I'm going to have to get an entirely new social scene if I want to avoid him,' she said, hunting for evidence… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and… — Darren Walker Copy Share Image
Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it… — John Kao Copy Share Image
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
“I arrive now at the ineffable core of my story. And here begins my despair as a writer. All language is a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“Get real. They’ll try to kill us no matter what. I can find out how to open the files from Mickey. You… — Dan Ahearn Copy Share Image
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
“I was convinced that she was about to tell me my card was declined, and assumed Derek wanting to talk later meant… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your… — Amy Riekhof Copy Share Image
Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate.… — Janny Scott Copy Share Image
The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy… — James Horner Copy Share Image
“Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we… — James Geary Copy Share Image
