"The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy."

-- Patricia Hampl

#Light Quotes #Substance Quotes #Golden Quotes

“The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.”
“Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning,”

Source : "Bob Feller, Whose Fastball Dazzled, Dies at 92" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2010.
“If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it.”

Source : "Meet Hellcats Stars Ashley Tisdale & Aly Michalka". www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.
“The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.”
“Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.”
“Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.”

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