Metaphor Quotes - Page 26

• I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Thinking, Mixing

  "Live Chat with Lydia Davis". www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

  Phillip Adams

  Sports, Religious, Inspirational Life

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• I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

  Sting

  Music, Journey, Thinking

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• The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

  John Towner Williams

  Country, Competition, Healthy

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• Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

  Jeff Smith

  Myth, Allegory, Walt

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• It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

  Alan Ball

  Organization, Misunderstood, Mind

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• I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write about it in a general way and make metaphors. Like "I'm the wolf and you are the moon ".

  Oh Land

  Writing, Moon, Issues

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• 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.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Research, Areas

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals. It was kind of a metaphor for this larger marriage of the banks selling off their debt and these street guys scrapping over it.

  Jake Halpern

  Goal, Guy, Bankers

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

  Sam Keen

  Ocean, Skins, Different

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

  Jean Houston

  Poetry And Music, World, Singers

  Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

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• One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads. When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are...they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded. We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.

  Alan Lightman

  Phones, Cells, Somewhere Else

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of leadership is to put forward ideas, symbols, metaphors of the way it should be done, so that the next generation can work out new and better ways of doing the job. The complaint Gordon and I have is that we are not being overtaken by our staff. We would like to be able to say, "We can't keep up with you guys", but, it is not happening.

  Anita Roddick

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

  Ray Bradbury

  Ideas, Results, Collision

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• You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Organize

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• That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Team, Fighting

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• Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Creating, Interesting, Magic

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Memories, Moving, Home

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• Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

  Marion Woodman

  Love You, Passion, Broken

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• Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!

  Mike Nichols

  Crush, Mother, Communication

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• Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Abandonment, Accepted, Who You Are

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

  Jordan Peele

  Nightmare, Horror, Protagonists

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more for a house in a better school district, they succeed only in bidding up the prices of those houses. As before, 50 percent of all children will attend schools in the bottom half of the school quality distribution. As in the familiar stadium metaphor, all stand, hoping to get a better view, only to discover that no one sees better than if all had remained seated.

  Robert H. Frank

  Children, School, Views

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Order, Games, Knowing

  Source: www.dbknews.com

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