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
“Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.” — Lee Argus 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
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
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
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense,… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,… — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but… — John Searle Copy Share Image
What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like… — John Green Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Running has taken me on adventures great and small, at home and around the world. It has provided me with hope and… — Martin Dugard Copy Share Image
We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Augustus: It's a metaphor Hazel: You choose your behaviours based on their metaphorical resonances... Augustus: Oh yes, I'm a big believer in… — John Green Copy Share Image
Years later, I found myself running a network television division and then a movie studio and now an entire entertainment company. But,… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his… — Lucius Shepard Copy Share Image
Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The musical mystery is: How do you marry tuned percussion and voice? On a metaphorical level, everything that's really important - like… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
Theatre tends to be more metaphorical and intense, as you're locked in one room and focused on one thing. Television can hop… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to… — Julian Baggini 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
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we… — James Geary Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image