Quotes by Metaphor To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot. Aaron Sorkin metaphor basketball I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes. Aharon Appelfeld catastrophe metaphor writing Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that. Alan Ball vampire metaphor way I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. Alan Garner cop metaphor coward Necessity is the mother of all invention. Albert Einstein metaphor mother needs The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. Alvin Toffler recognition metaphor errors You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting Amanda Peet metaphor oxygen motherhood Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. Andre Breton modern painting metaphor I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially. Andrew Bird metaphor research imagination Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward. Angela Ruggiero metaphor behinds glasses They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor. Ani DiFranco metaphor murder way By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life. Anna Quindlen metaphor disappointment age A world ends when its metaphor has died. Archibald MacLeish metaphor ends world The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor. Aristotle command metaphor style The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. Aristotle metaphor masters Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace. Aristotle halfway commonplace metaphor The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance. Arturo Rosenblueth vigilance metaphor math If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. Ben Casnocha argument metaphor ideas The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result. Bernard Levin metaphor results patient I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish. Bernard Malamud metaphor sometimes two 1234567891011»