Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Peeta. Blut wie Regentropfen am Fenster. Wie feuchte Erde an den Stiefeln.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought. — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
At the millennium we partied like it was 1999. And then we had a 10 year bathtub tequila hangover, man. Just hugging… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
I played to win. When I was a child, my brothers and I played cowboys and Indians in the park, and I… — Ita Buttrose Copy Share Image
For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplough driver… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to… — Epeli Hau'ofa Copy Share Image
I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the physical and the metaphorical meanings are clumsy ways of understanding what happens when two beings need, not just to be… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
My favorite cut is probably "Drink of Choice," and it was done by Bryan Michael Cox, it's a metaphorical type song, about… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
![“That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it…” quote by Epeli Hau'ofa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4e/epeli-hau-ofa-69505_alive_that-the-past-is-ahead-in-front-of-us-is_1614383.jpg)
