I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“This book provides an approach to building global love for brands by positioning emotional benefit within engaging communication. The Deep Metaphor framework… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In terms of viewing the world in a certain way, when you're talking about monsters and talking about the metaphor that you're… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God." "It is like that for me… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance… — Sherman Paul Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid of a little metaphor; it won’t bite you, but you should always make sure you know how to cash… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, there is no sin in thought, word, or deed, no matter how personal or secret, that does not… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering exception. At… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Trees are like people and give the answers to the way of Man. They grow from the top down. Children, like treetops,… — Ralph Helfer Copy Share Image
The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?" "No, Julius. It's the end of the circus." "I see. And these are… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it… — Sting Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Just like backing out of the driveway… If the driveway was ten miles long, full of rocks and pits, with lethal radiation… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals.… — Jake Halpern Copy Share Image
But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It… — Donald Antrim Copy Share Image
Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
