Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.

Andre Benjamin

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

Charles Bukowski

Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

Alan Moore

Love your rage, not your cage.

Greg Egan

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

J. R. R. Tolkien

What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.

Noam Chomsky

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

Morton Feldman

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Michael Moorcock

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Jeff Smith

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

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.

Mike Birbiglia

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

Paul Althaus

Earthly regeneration is a parable, but just alone a parable of the things to come.