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“Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures - I take that into life.”

Desire Periods Training Ethics Determination Metaphor Dedication Work Ethic Great Success

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.”

Wells Looks Kind Eye Loses Animal Metaphor Stupidity Flats Chickens Frightening Losing Yourself Kinds Of Love

Author:Werner Herzog

“Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.”

Way Knowing Possibility Offers Models Metaphor Theology Doctrine Science And Religion Reconciliation Witchcraft

Book:Spiral Dance: Slipcase

Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase

“I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.”

Thinking Giving Littles Metaphor Impression Faster Lazy Laziness Slow Down Slowing

Author:Ashley Judd

“We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.”

Materials Metaphor

Author:J. T. Walsh

“It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since I got into music. 'X' is the 24th letter in the alphabet, and I will turn 24 when this album comes out. 'X' is also a metaphor, as in 'ex-girlfriend': it implies you're progressing and moving on in life, not holding on to the past and your old ways.”

Way Years Past Moving Turns Progress Letters Metaphor Albums Girlfriend Plus Exes Holding On Alphabet My Birthday Old Ways Moving On In Life Ex Girlfriend Numerals Roman Numerals

Author:Chris Brown

“Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.”

Jobs Novel Economy Tough Embrace Metaphor Contemporary Former Dawn Wrestling Existential American Life Debut Wrestler

Author:Joshua Mohr

“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.”

Art Different Purpose Metaphor Painter Climbs Sanity Sculptors

Author:Dorothea Tanning

“A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.”

Motivational Sports Materials Metaphor Muscles Carrie Bodybuilding Sculptors Bodybuilder

Author:Serge Nubret

“Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.”

Wells Action Subjects Duty Stones Metaphor Resistance Throwing Birthright Throwing Stones

Author:Amira Hass

“Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art that speaks from some place other than your own. So I'm using the word 'conversation' not only for literal talk but also as a metaphor for engagement with the experience and ideas of others. And I stress the role of the imagination here because the encounters, properly conducted, are valuable in themselves. Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything, especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another.”

“I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.”

Believe Mean Belief I Believe Possibility Metaphor I Believe In Absurd Believe In God I Believe In God

Author:Reza Aslan

“Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.”

Facts Metaphor Tenacious

Book:Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

Source: Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

“While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.”

Persons Play Moments Roles Subjects Function Photographer Photograph Metaphor Appearance Symbols That Moment

Author:Minor White

“The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.”

Real Metaphor Planes Consistency Abolition

Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus

Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus

“Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.”

Mean Made Metaphor Chairs

Author:Thom Yorke

“If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.”

Ifs Thinking Art Metaphor Engaging Liberal Arts

Book:Unicorn Variations

Source: Unicorn Variations

“The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.”

Should States Church Judging Wall Metaphor Scary Guides Separation Useless Abandoned Church And State Separation Of Church And State Separation Between Church And State

Author:William Rehnquist

“Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Different Real Easy Childhood Tough Metaphor Symbols Fragile Spontaneous Understand Me Dross

Author:Maurice Sendak

“The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.”

People Writing Ends Century Events Metaphor Israel Carrie Genocide Holocaust Biographies Deep Inside Speaking And Writing

Author:Aharon Appelfeld

“I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.”

Writing Metaphor Catastrophe

Author:Aharon Appelfeld

“The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.”

Thinking Self Fall Sides Lines Falling In Love Metaphor True Self Handy

Author:Gayle Forman

“As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.”

May Order Culture Community Economy Economic Fit Metaphor Agriculture Economic Order

Book:Becoming Native to This Place

Source: Becoming Native to This Place

“Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.”

Success Force Effort Cutting Talent Intention Metaphor Dull Knives

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.”

“To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it.”

Knows Facts Action Life Is Process Movement Dancing Dance Metaphor Oneself Celebrate Knowing Oneself

Author:Sherman Paul

“But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.”

Life Is Race Missing Metaphor Cycles Racing Cycling

Author:Donald Antrim

“Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.”

Writing Wells Use Difficult Support Creative Metaphor Bones Friendly Songwriting Users Creative Writing User Friendly Good Lyric

Author:Pat Pattison

“A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.”

Stills Smile Metaphor Simile Scaffolding

Book:I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World

Source: I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World

“This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.”

Today Wanted Dies Culture Fun Perfect Millions New York Metaphor Bombs Comment Halloween Flu Subway

Author:Adam Gollner

“The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.”

Life Spiritual Spirituality Path Inspirational Life Enlightenment Garden Metaphor Symbols Spiritual Wisdom Gardening Physicians Spiritual Awakening Spiritual Path

Author:Larry Dossey

“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”

Design Letters Metaphor Dinner Jeans Jackets Graphic Design Typefaces Helvetica

Author:Adrian Frutiger

“Every time I write these words they become a taboo, Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true, Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.”

Writing Letters Metaphor Hip Hop Rap Proof Living My Life Curves Taboo Margins Punctuation

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.”

Earth Style Metaphor Hip Hop Rap Core Inches Inhale Turf

Author:J-Live

“I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.”

Reality Metaphor

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.”

Way Reality Attention Metaphor These Days Dose Attention Span Dose Of Reality

Author:Bill Griffith

“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

“You see, I know change I see change I embody change All we do is change Yeah, I know change We are born to change We sometimes regard it as a metaphor That reflects the way things ought to be In fact change takes time It exceeds expectations It requires both now and then See, although the players change The song remains the same And the truth is... You gotta have the balls to change”

Knows Way Life Sometimes Facts Song Born Player Ought Truth Is Expectations Balls Regard Yeah Remains Metaphor Life Changing Now And Then Take Time Exceed

Author:Vinnie Jones

“If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.”

Ifs Heart States Body United United States Teacher Calling Metaphor Novelists Usa Kentucky

Author:Jesse Stuart

“Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.”

Mind Sometimes Used Names Land Metaphor Backgrounds Free Will Los Angeles Honey Milk Lotuses Milk And Honey

Author:Neil Peart

“Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.”

Thinking Needs Years Use Air Metaphor Breathe

Author:Sharon Olds

“Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all”

Needs Said Sometimes Metaphor Complicated

Author:Immortal Technique

“For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it. That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge. When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water. We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.”

Needs Humans Moments Moving Life Is Water Levels Poet Return Ocean Infinite Metaphor Surface Human Life Bowls Floating Filling Acquisition Analogies Persian Containers Return To Me

Author:Bill Viola

“If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.”

People Ifs Citizens Battle Metaphor Isolation Silver Engagement Bullets Alienation Albany Dodging Bullets Silver Bullets

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.”

“The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?”

Knows Ideas Facts Faces Moving Culture Impossible Metaphor Genre Obsessed Your Face Cartoon

Author:Damon Albarn

“Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.”

Whole Together Alive Bottom Metaphor Fabric Interconnection

Author:Gregory Bateson

“We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.”

Understanding Car Machines Metaphor Attributes Umpires Analogies Cognitive Artifacts Attribution

Author:John Searle

“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”

Language Media Metaphor

Book:The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century

Source: The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century

“I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.”

Used Metaphor Commit Coward Cop Simile

Author:Alan Garner

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