Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Finding someone is like trying to find the right perfume. It has to be the right one, one that'll stick close to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trouble with going with the flow is, you might wind up getting sucked down the drain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by… — George Michael Copy Share Image
The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place. — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
Life is like a quotation. Sometimes, it makes you laugh. Sometimes, it makes you cry. Most of the time, you don't get… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
When one door closes another opens, is a fact l barely accept. The truth is, sometimes the open door is just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the… — Trevor Cole Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
“To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal as a presenter. In today's fast-paced world of communication, a well-thought-out… — Bruna Martinuzzi Copy Share Image
Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Obstacles are a natural part of life, just as boulders are a natural part of the course of the river. The river… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life, beginning with a seed of trust, nurtured with laughter and tears, growing into… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a… — Jordan Wolfson Copy Share Image
Relationship is like an onion which has many layers of TRUST and CARE. If you try to cut it you will find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There’s just one problem with feelings. They can be tremendously difficult to express in words. That’s the reason we so often resort… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery. — OMI Copy Share Image
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“Garbage in, garbage out. Or rather more felicitously: the tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible. — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
Let yourself move to the next chapter in life when the time comes. Don't remain stuck on the same page. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bad news is time flies like an arrow and the good news is the bow is in your hands. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
A flower can grow if you can take care of it. It's like a bridge you need to hold it together, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behold the lost. Behold a Band-Aid. These shameful metaphors fought it through the teeth. — Chevelle Copy Share Image
“How foolish was the fox. How blind. To not see, not value the friendship, the affection, the trust the brown bird offered… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
You know a dream is like a river, ever changin' as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
If you don't take the time to sharpen your axe, you'll spend your whole life hacking away at missed opportunities. — Blake Toth Copy Share Image
Old Friends are like gold. New Friends are like diamonds. If you get diamonds don't forget gold, because only gold can hold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be the ocean to create the wave. Don't drown, trying to ride the wave you see others surfing. — Lucas Hunter Copy Share Image
It's important that your inside character is bigger than your outside persona. A sports car with a lawnmower engine won't work. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
