134 quotes found
“Ive never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and thats enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.”
“The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day.”
“Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere figure of speech. It is the very essence of our minds as we seek to make sense of ...”
“Most people, including yourself, apparently, think The Moldau is about a river. It is not. It is a metaphor. It is about the progress of life, from its fragile beginnings through its joys and turbu...”
“A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.”
“Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was after all along was already its possession”
“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more.”
“Everything was a metaphor; all things were something other than themselves. The pain, for example, was an ocean, and he was adrift on it. His body was a city and his mind a citadel. All communicati...”
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.”
“One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.”
“The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...”
“My mother once wrote a poem about rivers. They were women, she wrote. Starting out small girls, tiny streams decorated with wildflowers. They were torrents, gouging paths through sheer granite, fli...”
“After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter was over. There were none of the signs of spring for which I used ...”
“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man”
“In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors.”
“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”
“The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.”
“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it ...”
“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
“I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we’re grass—our ...”
