Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Mosley

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Jacob Bronowski

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry

John Green

You live for pretentious metaphors.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Jonathan Galassi

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

Joseph Campbell

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

James Thurber

The unicorn is a mythical beast,

Brigitte Bardot

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Adam Savage

Failure is always an option.

Timothy Leary

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Roger Zelazny

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

Tina Turner

I am attracted to myths.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.