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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

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

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.

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

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.

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

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.

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

Sports are a metaphor for life.

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.