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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. — Robert Frost
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're… — Anne McCaffrey
Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just… — Brent Smith
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due… — Northrop Frye
Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one… — Rolf Potts
I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire — Gregory Crewdson
The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance. — Arturo Rosenblueth
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax,… — Sven Birkerts
The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new… — Morgan Freeman
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… — 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… — 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… — Starhawk
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… — Ashley Judd
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. — 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… — 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… — Joshua Mohr
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. — 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… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
A metaphor cannot be paraphrased — Percival Everett
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… — Reza Aslan
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. — Paul de Man
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… — Minor White
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. — Gilles Deleuze
Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. — Thom Yorke

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