Metaphor Quotes - Page 13

• Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Looks, Use

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• I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

  Steven Pinker

  Writing, Hockey, Ice

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• Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

  Steven Pinker

  Trying, Looks, Way

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• I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

  Robert Redford

  Golf, Film, Not Interested

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• Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

  Robert Redford

  Sports, Baseball, Golf

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• You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

  Robert Redford

  Sports, Golf, Stories

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• The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

  Anne Rice

  Ghouls, Vampire, Literature

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• Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Two, Differences

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• There are things that I love in Iranian cinema and things that I don't. In Iranian cinema, you have to use metaphor because you are living under a dictatorship.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Cinema, Use, Dictatorship

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• That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.

  Rob Sheffield

  Blood, Lust, Secret

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• I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Generosity, Example

  "Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

  Jane Smiley

  Memories, Creativity, Ideas

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.11, Anchor

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• I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Father, Funeral, Remember

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 13, 2009.

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• Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Thinking, Television, Way

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• I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

  Tim Vine

  Simile, Knows

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• I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

  Frances Mayes

  Southern, Speech, Quirks

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• The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.

  Saul Bass

  Thinking, Limits, Kind

  "Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design by Jennifer Bass and Pat Kirkham - review" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2011.

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• Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Life Is

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• Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.

  Marc Trestman

  Football, People, Focus

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• The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. I’m also reminded of James Lee Burke’s sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous...nothing short of brilliant...a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next.

  Rick DeMarinis

  Zero, Book, Heart

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• I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

  Peter Hammill

  Sake, Currents, Interest

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• Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Glasses, Behinds, Standing

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• I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

  C.P. Snow

  Two, Culture, Purpose

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

  C.D. Payne

  Morning, Giving, Optimism

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• If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

  Ben Casnocha

  Ideas, Argument, Clear

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2012

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