"She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale."

Metaphor, Obsession, Sight, Truth, Fantasy

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Metaphor, Body, Mind, Energy, Disease

"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Life, Growth, Struggle

"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Metaphor, Rest, Support, Relationship

"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Metaphor, Humanity, Identity, Emotion

"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."

Marie Lu, American Author

Metaphor, Darkness, Power, Fear, Control

"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Metaphor, Life, Observation, Flow, Existence

"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Metaphor, Healing, Transformation, Light, Hope

"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Car, Journey, Life, Attention

"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things."

J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer

Metaphor, Metaphors, Problems, Television, Thinking

"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."

John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant

Metaphor, Sense, Talk

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"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."

Perseverance

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

Life

"Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment."

Creation

"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."

Behavior

"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."

Psychology

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

Emotion

"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

"There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense."

"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen."

"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."

"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

"A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!"

"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things."

"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."

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"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

"Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment."

"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."

"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

"If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?"

"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing."

"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."