{"quotes":[{"text":"Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, evEryThing is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scare here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking TO do- clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["analogy","archeology","detective","mystery","truth"],"id":1728,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. All the bacteria on her skin and in her blood, the virii in her tissues. The woman who had been Elvi Okoye became a landscape. A world. She fell farther in.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["alien-technology","analogy","awareness","transcendence"],"id":2507,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["aggression","analogy","disapproval","motto","pacifism","paradox","war"],"id":14775,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.","author":"Ellen Dreyer","tags":["analogy","brave","break","broken","cave","experience","faith","geology","inspirational","life","motivational","rock","spelunking","steady","strength","strong","trauma","want","weather"],"id":33695,"author_id":"Ellen+Dreyer"},{"text":"We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.","author":"Asa Gray","tags":["analogy","animals","charles-darwin","darwin","democracy","kingdom","philosophy","plants","science","species","vegetables"],"id":39178,"author_id":"Asa+Gray"},{"text":"I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["analogy","inspirational","mental-health"],"id":40895,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.","author":"Plato","tags":["analogy","inspirational","motivational","perseverance","philosophy","running"],"id":56747,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke’s liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one’s looking.","author":"Peter Watts","tags":["analogy","reality","science","truth"],"id":60822,"author_id":"Peter+Watts"},{"text":"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.","author":"Albert Einstein","tags":["analogy","humor","science"],"id":61006,"author_id":"Albert+Einstein"},{"text":"Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.","author":"Aravind Adiga","tags":["analogy","cynical","india"],"id":95208,"author_id":"Aravind+Adiga"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}