#metaphor

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. ↗

— Dorothy Gambrell

#librarian #library #metaphor #television #television

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. ↗

— Malcolm X

#integration #metaphor #race-relations #coffee

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#metaphor #individuality

Give me wings or I will make them. Either way I will fly. ↗

— Céline

#freedom #metaphor #freedom

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#journey #metaphorical #research #travel #attitude

Just touching her makes me want to immerse myself, put my head completely under the surface of her. I want to drift, to let her carry me away, down her current. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#beauty

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #metaphor #mind #other #scripture

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#else #enslavement #extension #freedom #freedom from

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fatal #growth #idea #inside #leaving