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Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not… — Neill Blomkamp
Life's metaphors are God's instructions. — Elizabeth Gilbert
But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the… — Patricia Marx
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges
So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes,… — Dave Eggers
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they… — Joseph Campbell
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to… — Jack Zipes
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. — Daniel Handler
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath… — Vikram Chandra
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of… — George Orwell
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a… — Dean Koontz
Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others.… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has… — Milan Kundera
But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me. — Haruki Murakami
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to… — Robert Hughes
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's… — Abraham Verghese
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the… — Neil Gaiman
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to… — Milan Kundera
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… — Robert Frost
Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you know..." He stared… — Richelle Mead
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots… — John Green
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts.… — Joseph Campbell

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