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
Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical. — Dan Brown 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
When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other… — Quentin Tarantino 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
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
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
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
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
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
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls… — Layne Redmond 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
“Peeta. Blut wie Regentropfen am Fenster. Wie feuchte Erde an den Stiefeln.” — Suzanne Collins 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
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
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
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
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
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. — Joyce Carol Oates 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
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
“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
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
