Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal as a presenter. In today's fast-paced world of communication, a well-thought-out… — Bruna Martinuzzi Copy Share Image
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory… — Kode9 Copy Share Image
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
“A message denotes a specific, concrete statement about the world. But the forms of our media, including the symbols through which they… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“Instead of The Closet, I’d like to propose a more humane metaphor. What if we talk about queer/trans people “coming out of… — Jacob Tobia Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Boundaries aren’t walls. They’re bridges—back to your energy, your clarity, your well-being. And here’s the surprising twist: they’re also acts of kindness… — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
“And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?" Allie considered this. "Meaning?" "Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“He didn’t think it was addiction. At some point, he had simply forgotten how to wake up. The wolf’s blood no longer… — Valon G Copy Share Image
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
“Aristotle said29 that "the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot… — Robert Bosnak Copy Share Image
I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography.… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
