Quotes of: Metaphors Keyword

In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

Angela Ruggiero

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.

David S. Goyer

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

James Geary

Many Christians, including BioLogos, like to throw out the "you can't take the Bible literally" argument. They think it is the ultimate zinger that will end any debate in their favor. But if we shouldn't take the Bible literally, why should we believ...

Debunking Darwin's God: A Case Against BioLogos and Theistic Evolution

What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but a...

Heroes and Villains

Further, in the modern story, reality is that which is observable, measurable, and repeatable - the kinds of phenomena available, accessible, and verifiable to the five senses. Thus, reality comes to equal the scientific method. It should come as no ...

Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos

Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.

I Am America

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

Sexing the Cherry

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

Thomas Pynchon

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

Lydia Davis

Beth's not on that train?" "Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.

The King

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

Will Cotton

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

Erin McKean

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Bill Bradley

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

Anna Deavere Smith

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

Jeanette Winterson

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

Christopher Hitchens

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.

Charles Simic

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Bill Griffith