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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

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

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.