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"All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry." »G. K. Chesterton
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"I call architecture frozen music." »Johann von Goethe
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"Cold If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death" »Mark Twain
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"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners." »Johnny Carson
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"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live." »Peter Cochrane
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"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life." »Norman Cousins
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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him." »Jose Ortega y Gasset
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"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us." »Paul Valery
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"Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling
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"The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error." »Alvin Toffler
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"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us." »Franz Kafka
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"The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand
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"Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light." »Andrew Schneider
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