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Sports are a metaphor for life.

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

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

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

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.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change.

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

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.

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

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

You live for pretentious metaphors.

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:] We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.