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
On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human… — Umberto Eco 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
I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a… — Alison Levine 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
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“Kanban, while Japanese, is less metaphorical than Drum-Buffer-Rope.” — David J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery, — James Geary Copy Share Image
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.” — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too… — Jane Espenson 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
“If that moment was a Russian nesting doll, I was paying attention to the smallest figurine. I did not see all the… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“There're a lot of odd things going on--but I feel like I'm slowly getting closer to the truth." -"Actually getting closer to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
What the Clintons have always done is embraced challenging. They can't have enough photo opportunities with Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. They… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“The dark has a eased a little. There has been a street-lamp burning, that has lit the threads of the bleached net… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“With domineering hand she moves the turning wheel, Like currents in a treacherous bay swept to and fro: Her ruthless will has… — Boethius - Queen Elizabeth I translation Copy Share Image
With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The differences between religions are only differences involving the pathways that lead toward the practice of directly experiencing higher levels of perception… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films that are far… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
