This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Sorry, poppet,” I tell Aoife. “I was miles away.” “No, you weren’t. You’re right here.” “I was miles away metaphorically.” “What’s meta … frickilly?”… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It would not be fair to say that the fire stole my faith, since in truth it has been slipping away from… — Elissa Janine Hoole Copy Share Image
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“It's not only the demons who have the power to break you. It's the small, unexpected kindness, the flame that throws the… — Erica O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself.… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“But people need to cling to something. hey have to. You're doing the same, even though you don't realize it. It's like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
“They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic:… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole,… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Forged in the smithy of someone else's soul. Please… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Most people, including yourself, apparently, think The Moldau is about a river. It is not. It is a metaphor. It is about… — Gerald Elias Copy Share Image
“Far from being the rock or island in the Simon and Garfunkel song, it turns out that the best metaphor to describe… — Rick Smith Copy Share Image
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed:… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
“Pharaoh is clearly a metaphor. He embodies and represents raw, absolute, worldly power. He is, like Pilate after him, a stand-in for… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
![“The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused in such a horrific way. I lost it a lot of times watching that film, particularly when seeing the grace of the man when he finally makes it back home aged, changed, forever…” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c06/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_absence_the-story-in-12-years-a-slave-serves-as_2982882.jpg)
![“Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].” quote by David Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/david-lynch-911_art_well-i-ve-been-blessed-with-good-hair-or_1223673.jpg)
