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50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.

A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else.

A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.

A metaphor is like a simile.

A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life.

A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.

Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks very feminine. Why? - because it is simply a metaphor. They have been depicted as feminine, graceful, to show that that is their inner quality - receptivity. When you are doing something you are being aggressive. When you are not doing anything you are non-aggressive. And God cannot be conquered; you can only allow him to conquer you.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

I like the idea of watching the sun go down in the ocean. I've always felt comfortable about that, I like sunsets. There's something about a westward movement that seems fascinating, although the Irish refer to going West as a metaphor for dying. I see it differently.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.

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.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

I was afraid that something would happen to me. But at the same time I was lucky, because some writers were tortured and jailed. I always used metaphors that could be interpreted in more than one way. Maybe this style protected me.

It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.