Allegory Quote by Peter Murphy

It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained…

— Lionel Trilling

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,

— Mark Haddon

Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and…

— Carlton Cuse

“Your shoes, mother,” he said. He had never called her mother, not in his whole life.”

— Kyle Minor

“My mother always said - "Never run after a man or a bus - there is always another one coming.”

— Tessa Kiros

A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and…

— Mark Jason Dominus

“My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.” “Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.”

— George R.R. Martin

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

— Walter Benjamin

Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary…

— Donald E. Westlake

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

— Lydia Davis

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly…

— Carl Jung

The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not…

— Thomas Jefferson