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Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist. — Bill Maher
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story. — Gabrielle Roth
Marathoning is a metaphor for life, so there are a lot of parallels you can draw. I tell people to follow your dream, follow your… — Joan Benoit
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of… — Chase Twichell
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs.… — Robert Moss
If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and… — Haruki Murakami
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future,… — Ray Bradbury
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… — Elizabeth Edwards
I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we… — Swoosie Kurtz
But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have… — Gerhard Richter
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the… — Robert Breault
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these… — George Henry Lewes
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically… — James Lovelock
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great… — Avi Arad
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who… — Jody Watley
The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation… — N. T. Wright
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols. — Elizabeth A. Johnson
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another. — Neil Postman
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything. — Gore Vidal
Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war. — Eduardo Galeano
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,… — Joseph Campbell
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta… — Bob Dylan
Any supreme insight is a metaphor. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who… — Gabrielle Roth

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