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Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us… — Gerhard Richter
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it… — Steven Pressfield
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for… — Rob Bell
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles.… — James N. Frey
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of… — Susan Sontag
I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature… — Nicole Krauss
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object… — George Lakoff
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the… — Charles Petzold
My fans have always loved my metaphors. — R. Kelly
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself… — Christina, Queen of Sweden
Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear… — Tony Robbins
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to… — Tony Rothman
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and… — Walter Hill
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting… — Conrad Hall
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. — Jim Henson
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into… — Milan Kundera
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible… — Maimonides
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it… — Hilary Mantel
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch. — Jack Nicholson
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. — Joe Paterno
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying… — Steven Pinker
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. — Anne Rice
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot… — J. Michael Straczynski

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