Metaphor Quotes - Page 37

• Sports are a metaphor for life.

  Ronda Rousey

  Sports, Mma

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• Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

  Walter Hill

  Thinking, Boxing, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

  Ihab Hassan

  Integrity, Silence, Excellence

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• The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

  Wendy Doniger

  Dog, Voice, Silence

  Wendy Doniger (2010). “The Hindus: An Alternative History”, p.43, Oxford University Press, USA

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• How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

  Ned Vizzini

  Sex, Moving, Fancy

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• The most colossal display of wise, inspiring,
  and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

  Richard Lederer

  Wise, Humorous, Display

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• The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Views, Perspective

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

  Andre Breton

  Painting, Modern, Made

  "Chagall: A Biography". Book by Jackie Wullschlagger, 2008.

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• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  Sam Keen

  Memories, People, Giving

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

  Eric Liu

  Smart, Thinking, Winning

  "Mad Libs" by Eric Liu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2005.

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• In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

  Bill Moyers

  War, Police, Mind

  "The Meaning of Freedom". Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, November 15, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 78, 2008.

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• Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.

  Laura Riding

  Mother, Sight, Expression

  "The Matter of Metaphor". "Rational Meaning and Supplementary Essays". Book by Laura Riding and Schuyler B. Jackson, edited by William Harmon, 1997.

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• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  Vera Wang

  Wedding, Book, Creativity

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• I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Television, Enjoy

  "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Perfect, Holy Grail

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• 'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Immigration, Elysium, World

  "Immersed in Movies: Neill Blomkamp Talks ‘Elysium,’ Sci-Fi, VFX" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Space, Elysium

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• Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.

  Neill Blomkamp

  People, Fiction, World

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Success, Sports

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• We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

  Jane Fonda

  Birthday, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Destiny, Care

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• Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Soul, Mind, Literature

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Cutting, Use, Done

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

  Audre Lorde

  Sex, Race, Long

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.

  Miranda July

  Jobs, Writing, Character

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