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561 Metaphor quotes by 439 unique authors
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"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
— Larry Wall
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It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.
— Robin Williams
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Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
— Nick Denton
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I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.…
— Roger Caillois
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I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about…
— Noah Cicero
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A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
— Laurie Cabot
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Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens…
— Stephen De Staebler
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Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these…
— Polly Young-Eisendrath
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Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season.…
— Henry Cloud
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It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
— Ludwig von Mises
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In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in…
— Cameron Diaz
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That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
— Kelly Corrigan
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The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries,…
— Unknown Author
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You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the…
— Miguel Syjuco
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PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no way to move…
— Norman Buckley
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Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the…
— Diane Frolov
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With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What…
— Kwame Dawes
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Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five…
— James Richardson
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Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic,…
— Elisabeth Leamy
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Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely…
— Peter Greenaway
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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
— Isaiah Berlin
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Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.
— Deepak Chopra
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.
— Aristotle
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A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that…
— Starhawk
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The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
— Edward Ruscha
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