Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux 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
“Kanban, while Japanese, is less metaphorical than Drum-Buffer-Rope.” — David J. Anderson 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
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos 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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought. — Denis Leary 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
![“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/i/b4e/epeli-hau-ofa-69505_alive_that-the-past-is-ahead-in-front-of-us-is_1614383.jpg)
