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Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future,… — Ray Bradbury
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these… — George Henry Lewes
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically… — James Lovelock
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great… — Avi Arad
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols. — Elizabeth A. Johnson
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another. — Neil Postman
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,… — Joseph Campbell
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta… — Bob Dylan
The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line… — Walter Brueggemann
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. — M H Abrams
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. — Carl Jung
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson
When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns… — Judy Cannato
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it… — Rene Thom
The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can… — Daria Halprin
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our… — Michel de Montaigne
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes… — Carl Sagan
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words… — Sidney Lanier
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and… — Jonathan Raban
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. — Steven Pressfield
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. — Dar Williams
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the… — Luci Shaw
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one… — Mary Catherine Bateson

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