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• Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.

  Rolf Potts

  Knowing, Choices, Facts

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.158, Ballantine Books

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• Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.

  Sven Birkerts

  Spring, Communication, Reading

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• Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.

  Werner Herzog

  Eye, Animal, Stupidity

  "Signs of Life". DVD Audio Commentary, 2005.

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• I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

  Ashley Judd

  Thinking, Giving, Lazy

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• It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since I got into music. 'X' is the 24th letter in the alphabet, and I will turn 24 when this album comes out. 'X' is also a metaphor, as in 'ex-girlfriend': it implies you're progressing and moving on in life, not holding on to the past and your old ways.

  Chris Brown

  Girlfriend, Moving, Past

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• Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.

  Joshua Mohr

  Jobs, Wrestling, Dawn

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• Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

  Amira Hass

  Throwing Stones, Resistance, Action

  "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.

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• Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art that speaks from some place other than your own. So I'm using the word 'conversation' not only for literal talk but also as a metaphor for engagement with the experience and ideas of others. And I stress the role of the imagination here because the encounters, properly conducted, are valuable in themselves. Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything, especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Art, Stress, Ideas

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• A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

  Percival Everett

  Paraphrased

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• 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.

  Reza Aslan

  Believe, Mean, Belief

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• While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

  Minor White

  Play, Roles, Photographer

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• Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Chairs, Made

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• The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Writing, Israel, People

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• I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Writing, Catastrophe

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• As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

  Wes Jackson

  Agriculture, Order, Community

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.50, Counterpoint

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• On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance:
  Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.

  August Strindberg

  Children, Home, Self

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• This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.

  Adam Gollner

  New York, Fun, Halloween

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• Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Religious, Wall, Passion

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• Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Islands, Swim

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• When we talk about the Universe Story we are talking about the acquisition of a totally new paradigm, one which overturns many of the patterns that we unconsciously believe to be true. There is not simply the addition of new metaphors and images, but the metaphors and images themselves flow out of a new consciousness inspired by a new awareness of the cosmos.

  Judy Cannato

  Believe, Talking, Acquisition

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• A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power.

  Mason Jennings

  Ego, Behavior, Higher Power

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

  R.A. Dickey

  Letting Go, Knuckleballs

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• The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

  David Edelstein

  Hype, Delusional

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• This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.

  Wayne Dyer

  Running, Spiritual, Moving

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• Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it gives no more than analogies, or metaphors, they do not realise that they are stating the proper aim of Catastrophe Theory, which is to classify all possible types of analogous situations.

  Rene Thom

  Science, Giving, Analogies

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