An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging “Say it new! Say it new!” — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Don't Be Afraid Of Wolf Leading Pack Of Sheeps, Be Afraid Of A Sheep Leading The Pack Of Wolfs. — FazeelAhmed Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want… — William Arrowsmith Copy Share Image
Fitzcarraldo is a mad dreamer. He's willing to sacrifice everything in order to make his vision of an opera house. That metaphor… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME… — Elisabeth Leamy Copy Share Image
“So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliche, to reach out… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
Maybe we need more dialogue in terms of our faith, in terms of those who are believers, or even nonbelievers, about that… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that… — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
There are moments on songs like "Violet" where it's still shrouded in metaphor, but it's quite, I don't know, explicit. And then… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
“How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain, the hand… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“A good metaphor is worth a thousand pictures.” — Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey Copy Share Image
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