Quotes by Metaphor 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 metaphorcomedylooks If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. Roger Zelazny metaphorartthinking Sports are a metaphor for life. Ronda Rousey mmametaphorsports An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. Samuel Johnson epithetmetaphorart I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors. Samuel Taylor Coleridge metaphorlectures You are not made of metaphors, Sarah Kay metaphorapologyexcuse But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. Scarlett Thomas metaphormathematicsway I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. Seth Lloyd programmetaphorcapacity I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it. Serena Williams middlemetaphortrack I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk. Sidney Lanier metaphorfaultsstyle The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor. Simone Weil philosophicalmetaphoruniverse Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from? Steig Larsson metaphor I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs. Stewart D. Friedman metaphorbalancewriting Language is memory and metaphor. Storm Jameson metaphorlanguagememories A metaphor is like a simile. Steven Wright similemetaphorhumor Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust. Susan Sontag illnessunjustmetaphor The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level. Taylor Hackford metaphordevillevels We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being. Terence McKenna metaphorneeds Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs. Thom Yorke chairsmetaphormean The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. Thomas Carlyle glowingmetaphorlanguage«1234567891011»
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