It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“He can't hear you." Alex sighs. "You aren't the sharpest sheep in the barn, are you?" "That's not even the right metaphor,"… — Jessica Warman Copy Share Image
Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“At last he was to feel that he had the town, as it were, in his pocket, and was ready for anything.… — Livy Copy Share Image
The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The idea of getting old and dying, falling apart, does not sound fun at all to me, but it's an observation that… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level… — Johan Hegg Copy Share Image
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“... we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip.… — Graham McNamee Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I was tied down in that chair for 10 minutes and experienced what it was like to be completely powerless while someone… — David Farrier Copy Share Image
“Is that true," I asked, "that song?" "It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth." "And the end of… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
“If I were a different kind of person, I might say that this whole incident is a metaphor for life in general:… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again.… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
![“[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my…” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/anna-quindlen-467_children_after-my-mother-died-i-had-a-feeling-tha_2710339.jpg)
![“... we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've…” quote by Graham McNamee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32e/graham-mcnamee-38229_big-time_we-can-catch-fish-and-just-throw-them-ba_1299539.jpg)
