Metaphorical Quotes

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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be… — Ulrich Beck
Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to… — Rick Bayan
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted… — Sam Shepard
Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so… — Tupac Shakur
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You… — Roz Chast
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for light… — Lucius Shepard
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth,… — John Fowles
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed… — George Lakoff
A great brand is a story thatâ€™s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep â€“ a fundamental… — Scott Bedbury
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery, — James Geary
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and… — James Geary
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it… — John Searle
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification — Robert Smithson
My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the… — Saul Bass
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think… — George Lakoff
In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas… — Paul Scott
It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never totally… — Ettore Sottsass

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