“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Our wings were clipped, our restrictions were made, our boundaries were tested but now we are free, aren’t we? We look above… — Jennifer Gilmour Copy Share Image
Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason,… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“Values without action are like blueprints left rolled up in a dusty attic. This chapter is where you climb into your metaphorical… — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say it new! Say it new!" It's… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
“Many Christians, including BioLogos, like to throw out the "you can't take the Bible literally" argument. They think it is the ultimate… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can… — Minor White Copy Share Image
In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
“The regularity of the clock was a metaphor for the accuracy of the universe. For the accuracy of God's creative achievement. So… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
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In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it.… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to… — Ben Drew Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and… — Rick DeMarinis Copy Share Image
“Another example of how a metaphor can create new meaning for us came about by accident. An Iranian student, shortly after his… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
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I'm bored with DJs. Anybody that puts the title DJ in front of their name immediately turns me off. I prefer the… — Momus Copy Share Image
I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
I feel like I've always had two selves - the part of me that makes films and the part of me that's… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
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For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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![“I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a great victory just as a person. I overstepped countless obstacles by creating that record. And the record's a metaphor for the personal steps I [took] throughout the past year.” quote by Justin Vernon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/252/justin-vernon-4380_creating_i-m-super-happy-to-see-the-record-doing_1563147.jpg)
