Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman CapoteTag: wisdom success experience failure metaphor
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.
Patrick JonesTag: wisdom different rebels metaphor authority
Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ...
Tag: metaphor
Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.
Elizabeth GilbertTag: metaphor
If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
Dorothy GambrellTag: television internet metaphor library librarian
METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.
Chris WareTag: metaphor
What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: truth language metaphor abstraction myths representation
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph CampbellTag: humor computers metaphor gods old-testament no-mercy
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar
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