Metaphorical Inspiration Quotes

#1. While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

Henry Rollins

#2. Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.

Kate Chopin

#3. The bronze rider of Mnementh, Lord F'lar, will require quarters for himself. I, F'nor, brown rider, prefer to be lodged with the wingmen. We are, in number, twelve. F'lar liked that touch of F'nor's, totting up the wing strength, as if Fax were incapable of counting.

Anne McCaffrey

#4. We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or give our anguish scope.
Something was dead within each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#6. My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

Lily Collins

#7. A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.

Richard Llewellyn

#8. Without love we are not truly living.

Dianna Agron

#9. I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

Jodi Picoult

#10. The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli