Metaphor Quotes - Page 11

• When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful or barren. And "estate" encompasses both legacy and landscape. Think of Emerson, referring to his son's death as "the loss of a beautiful estate."

  Monica Youn

  Beautiful, Son, Loss

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I don't know that it's a necessary part of the appeal that the superhero be superior.

  Kurt Busiek

  Emotional, Thinking, Superhero

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The metaphors exist for the stories.

  Kurt Busiek

  Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Different, Archetype

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Stories, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The metaphor is the story, not the character.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it is a very powerful metaphor for understanding the grammar of the creative process. It applies to business and to other pursuits as well.

  John Kao

  Powerful, People, Creative

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• If you're black living in the community and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Mean, Community, Black

  Source: deadline.com

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• It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.

  Theodora Goss

  Falling In Love, Magic, Stories

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The idea of Judaism as a flower, it a message for Jewish people, talking about the future. Many people associate Judaism with old and dry laws, and the Holocaust. But with this metaphor, Judaism for me is useful, pleasant, and fills me with good feelings.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Flower, Ideas, Talking

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.

  Anne Carson

  Morning, Thinking, Greek

  "Anne Carson's Poetry Collection 'Float' In Unconventional Medium To Suit The Message". Interview with Scott Simon, listen.sdpb.org. October 22, 2016.

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• I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.

  Terry Bozzio

  Kids, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where the metaphors live in this geography.

  Dar Williams

  Song, New York, Ocean

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Perfect, Acting, Blind

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

  Alice Mattison

  Character, Thinking, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Technically I've improved - I might turn a metaphor in five words now, where years ago, it would have taken me a paragraph. I can't say it was intentional - but you know what they say about practice making perfect...!

  Jodi Picoult

  Taken, Years, Practice

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

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• Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere.

  Jerry Garcia

  Order, Sound, Might

  Source: medium.com

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• The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Keys, Sight, Perception

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Color, People, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through Adam Woods, and the company he works for, which produces virtual memories that people can beam into their consciousness. While the technology is sci-fi, the story is also a metaphor for the way love relationships create memories in our minds.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Memories, Technology, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today.

  Ashley Graham

  Basketball, Skills, Shapes

  Source: awesomesportsproject.com

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• When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back and forth, you understood the power of air underneath the wings. In that way, a child begins to understand abstraction, poetry, metaphor, symbolism. You play with the materials you have and use your imagination to make them into something else. That what's so sad about having everything on a little screen - it's not physical and dimensional, and that seems backward.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Kids, Air

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• My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Hate, Gun

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• I remember periods where we didn't even have beats in our club sets, but people kept dancing. The beat wasn't even necessary, because it was a biokinetic experience - that's our metaphor for the dance and the body and all its expressions. From today's point of view, this would be totally impossible.

  Thomas Koner

  People, Dancing, Impossible

  Source: pitchfork.com

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