"Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is."

-- Robert Hass

#Ideas Quotes #Stories Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.”
“Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.”

Source : "Cheryl Hines Interview - WAITRESS" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 2, 2007.
“Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.”

Source : Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.142, Penguin
“In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.”
“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.”
“I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.”

Source : Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”
“The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free”

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