A Quotes
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“A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.”
Source: The Virgin in the Garden
“A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.”
“A metaphor hath undoubtedly the strongest effect when it is first ushered into the language; but by reason of its peculiar boldness, this, as was hinted already, is rarely to be hazarded, I may say it ought never to be hazarded, unless when both the perspicuity is secured to an ordinary understanding by the connexion, and the resemblance suggested is very striking.”
Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“A metaphor helps you understand a new idea by connecting it to something you already know. Whenever a metaphor doesn’t work or breaks down, you can just throw it away and get a new one.”
Source: Learning How to Learn
“A metaphor is like a simile.”
“A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.”
“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can make sense of. A metaphor, in this "experiential" sense, is a process by which we understand and structure one domain of experience in terms of another domain of a different kind.”
Source: The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
“A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.”
“A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.”
Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
“A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.”
“A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.”
“A meteoric rise- a passing flash
but consistent growth - the bright north star”
“A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.”
“A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.”
“A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.”
Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn
“A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing child, of his physical and mental equipment at any given stage, and, therefore, his readiness at any given stage to adapt, to learn, to regulate his behavior according to parental expectations.”
Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood
“A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”
“A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry”
“A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.”
“A meticulous ethnological testament holds that whatever we subsist upon molds us. Another often-repeated axiom holds that at midlife every person has the face that he or she deserves.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A meticulous outline makes a magnificent book.”
“A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. "This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says. Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“A mezza strada tra i miei due cari amici, finisco i miei bicchieri con in testa il ritornello di mio nonno, che per trent'anni aveva allenato la squadra di baseball della base americana: il vero talento, mi ripeteva scuotendo la testa come davanti a un'inevitabilità biblica, sta quasi sempre nelle mani degli ignari, degli incuranti, dei disgraziati, di coloro che sono pronti a svenderlo senza ricavarne nessun profitto, che se ne dimenticano come di una bicicletta con cui si è tanto corso in quell'ultima estate. Pochissimi sono capaci di costruire una carriera sul puro talento, diceva, di solito sono i mediamente dotati ad andare avanti, E determinati, quelli abituati al sacrificio e familiari con la delusione, gli ostinati e i pedanti. Gli ambiziosi, senza dubbio. Raramente un grande talento si accompagna a una grande ambizione. I benedetti dal talento arrivano molto in alto con troppa naturalezza, non imparano sotterfugi e colpi bassi, E poi si trovano impreparati: ci restano male appena subiscono un fallo o sono derubati di un'idea o li atterrano in modo sleale, finiscono per abbandonare il campo con quella grazia stupida che è la loro maledizione.”
Source: La nostalgia degli altri
“A mi edad, tengo clara una cosa: no puedes ir contra tu corazón.”
Source: Antes de que las hojas caigan
“A mi entender, hay que concebir los macrocuerpos políticos que llamamos sociedades en primer lugar como campos de fuerzas integradas por el estrés, más precisamente como sistemas de preocupaciones que se autoestresan y que se precipitan siempre hacia adelante. Estos sistemas solo existen en la medida que consiguen mantener su 'tonus' específico de intranquilidad mientras los temas cambian diariamente y anualmente. Desde este punto de vista una nación es una colectividad que consigue conservar en común la ausencia de calma. Un flujo constante, más o menos intenso, de temas estresantes ha de encargarse de sincronizar las consciencias para integrar la población en una comunidad de preocupaciones y excitaciones que se regenera día tras día. Es por eso que los medios de información modernos son absolutamente imprescindibles [...]”
Source: Stress und Freiheit
“A mi entender, los niños llegan a sus padres y familias con tres necesidades emocionales básicas: la necesidad de afecto; la necesidad de estructura y la necesidad de disciplina. A estas tres, se unen las necesidades de tiempo, atención y dirección. Cuando una madre establece una relación fusionada con su hijo, el proceso de satisfacción [de estas necesidades] se ve profundamente afectado. Entonces, ¿cómo evitar que la madre establezca una relación fusionada con su hijo? Mi propuesta, incluye varias recomendaciones. Primero, que la madre esté sintonizada a las necesidades emocionales de su hijo, entendiendo que el niño no es una extensión de ella, sino un individuo con el potencial y necesidad de desarrollar y mantener su propia autonomía. Segundo, la madre deberá ser intencional en la manera como ella satisface sus necesidades emocionales a través de relaciones adultas en lugar de tratar de satisfacerlas a través de la relación con su niño. De no hacerlo así, la correrá el peligro de terminar utilizando a su hijo como un analgésico al intentar neutralizar la soledad o desconsolación emocional que pueda estar enfrentando como resultado de la ausencia física o emocional de su esposo o compañero sentimental. (Hombres Escurridizos, Cap. 15)”
“A mi espalda, brillaba aún el sol y ante mí se levantaba la luna.”
Source: Cumbres Borrascosas
“A mi me hace avanzar el odio. Cuando la energía del odio desaparezca no serviré para nada.”
Source: Mockingjay
“A mi me preguntaban: ¿qué quieres ser cuando grande? Y yo decía: extranjera.”
“A mi situación de mujer soltera que vive sola, y que por ende debe cuidarse y protegerse ella solita, además de cargar con la responsabilidad de todo lo que sucede”
Source: Lo que sabe la señorita Kim
“A mi solo me gustaria estar en un lugar donde nunca me tuviera que ir.”
“A Miami judge issued Florida's first gay marriage license yesterday, which makes it the 36th state to legally perform gay marriages. Of course, most Florida residents are too old to understand what that means. They'll say, 'Well, I think all marriages should be gay, and merry.'”
“A micro-task is best described as a task which is simple, repetitive or highly algorithmic in nature. Each executed task lasts between a few minutes to a few hours, and this short life-cycle ensures that a task can be contracted, completed and paid for expeditiously, often within the transaction window itself”
Source: The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace
“A microphone and a podium gives you neither talent nor permission.”
“A microphone fiend; I make beats do back flips.”
“A mid life crisis is nothing but getting to the point where you go, have I done what I wanted to do? Am I living the life that I want to live? Am I appreciating what I have? If you don't get to that point developmentally, you're not doing it correctly. The people who get to that age and haven't reassessed usually haven't faced the fact that that's where they are.”
“A middle-aged man who’s probably down to jerking off every other day. A weary man of forty who’s already seen everything come around twice, who let me fuck him that once in a hole where whole armies of men have doubtless passed.”
Source: Our Young Man
“A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.”
“A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.”
“A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing "same-sex marriage"] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture.”
“A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.”
“A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.”
“A middleage friend of the poet's mother said:
"They're killing off all our good men: I tell ya, a black man
Today speaks his piece at the risk of losing his life.”
“A middling talent makes for a more serene life.”
“A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.”
“A midst deceit I found the truth;
there in the rough I found a diamond.
And from the moment we met,
I think of no one else
Today I choose to be, to live and breathe;
to dream, to weep, and to sing in free verse.
And you, the object of my delight:
a like-minded opposite I am myself with,
a mind-fuck times six, seven, eight thousand and three.
I know that you love me with every inch of your deep.”
Source: Compound Delusions: The Rise and Fall of our Design
“A midwife knows too much . . . But if she is truly a wise woman, she knows when to keep her mouth shut.”
Source: The Virgins of Venice
“A midwife once told Erszébet of the üszögös gyermek, the stunted child, a premature fetus born alive, a scurrying spectral thing with a rat's feet and ears.Unless the stunted child is immediately destroyed, it will return to its mother's womb. It is something monstrous, grown in secret.”
Source: The Fig Eater
“A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.”
“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”
Source: The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri