Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think there are shades of political songs; some are more subtle and can be more effective for being subtle, for being… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
“Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
“I look at him and my body reacts in a way that it never has before, even in the throes of passion.… — D.L. Hess Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them… — David Katz Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment.… — John Didcott Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell,… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She understood now why so many members of her kind died so young. It was possible to squeeze an entire lifetime of… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
For every album, I look at where I'm at in my career and think of a title that kind of represents that.… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Fire is a symbol for so much. It's a symbol for change. It's a symbol for destruction. Out of the ashes of… — Sam Roberts Copy Share Image
A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The 20th century saw far greater catastrophes than September 11th, as bad as it was, and they didn't render literature or art… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“If the invariable human problem with the sacred is its intangibility, its elusiveness, here all complaints are surely laid to rest. For… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“...a small stream...sings a carefree song as it runs by your house. It is so nonthreatening that you can sit by it,… — Fatemeh Keshavarz Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the… — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
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