Metaphor Quotes - Page 36

• I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by looking. This is interesting in itself, but more as a broad-based metaphor for how we understand the world.

  William Kentridge

  Interesting, Machines, World

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• They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

  Ani DiFranco

  Way, Murder, Kill Me

  Song: Crime For Crime, Album: Not a Pretty Girl, 1995

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• A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.

  Ishmael Reed

  Careers, Perfect, Black

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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• The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

  Kent Beck

  Stories, Programmers, Customers

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• The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body can also be understood as metaphors for the expression of our being

  Daria Halprin

  Expression, Movement, Body

  Daria Halprin (2003). “The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor, and Meaning”, p.17, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Forever

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• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

  Joseph Epstein

  Clever, Writing, Arrows

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• Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

  Grant Morrison

  Grief, Writing, Joy

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Mean, People

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• Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.

  Charles Petzold

  Book, Technology, Illustration

  Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.4, Microsoft Press

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• Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves

  Rorion Gracie

  Victory, Jiu Jitsu, Serious

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• When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

  Will Cotton

  Desire, Firsts, Painting

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• My fans have always loved my metaphors.

  R. Kelly

  Fans

  "R Kelly: 'Weak people are the haters'" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2013.

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• So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Gun, Austerity, Path

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.

  William Dean Howells

  Running, Tired, Science

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• The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

  Aristotle

  Style, Command

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• The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

  Gaston Bachelard

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

  Mark Burnett

  Dream, Peter

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• Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

  Julie Burchill

  Talking, People, Today

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• God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Shapes, Speak, Form

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• A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

  Denis Donoghue

  Art, Expression, Syntax

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• I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

  Robert Genn

  Opportunity, Light, Subjects

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• Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear answers, but you're not stuck. The minute you represent the situation to yourself as being stuck, though, that's exactly how you'll feel. We must be very careful about the metaphors we allow ourselves to use.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, People, Frustrated

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.

  Tony Rothman

  Thinking, Opposites, Age

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